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Being a journalist for the Independent, Emma Bamford is swept along with the London corporate jungle, lost between the egos of Fleet Road. Ornamented by budget slices and bullies, the enjoyment of a breaking news story is no more enough. With 31, still struggling to get to a fourth date and surrounded by friends settling right down to married life and babies, Emma decides to understand her life by the origins and reclaim her freedom...by jogging away to sea and getting started with an entire stranger (and his cat) on a yacht in Borneo. Reflective yet funny and self-deprecating, we show Emma's pleasure and fear at departing a good job for an unidentified adventure, and join her as she journeys to some of the most exotic places on the planet and starts off to realise what really concerns in life. She discovers the supreme awkwardness of showing a little space with total strangers, the unimaginable beauty of heaven islands and key jungle waterways, glimpses lost tribes, works all hours for demanding superyacht owners, and has a terrifyingly close to pass up with pirates. Fending off affectionate propositions from a Moldovan pig farmer and a Sri Lanken community chief between others, Emma discovers adventure and joy in the most unlikely places. From planning every day meticulously to understanding how to let go and leave things to chance, Emma's story shows that it is possible to break free and discover joy - and love - by yourself terms.
