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Laura Coffey is a travel writer, happiest in motion. She's newly addicted to cold water swimming, has an old addiction to adventure, and loves to write about the wild beauty of the places she visits and the people she meets as she roams through the world. Her work has been published in places like Conde Nast Traveller, The Guardian and BBC Travel. She is a certified yoga teacher, solo travel enthusiast and excitable bird-nerd. When she is not writing, Laura can be found cycling across London, stretching out on her yoga mat, or best of all, planning an escape to a remote island. Instagram: l_j_coffey
Laura Coffey's personal Odyssey is a magical and hugely captivating journey into journeys. Like the original Odyssey and all that follow it, Enchanted Islands is about finding one's way home. But the adventures on the way are filled with such beauty, wonder and surprise. The journey changes the meaning of the destination. A simply marvellous read, hugely recommended. * Stephen Fry * Lovelorn and escaping lockdown, Laura finds solace in her bridge between myths and science, the melding of maps and poetry, and the healing power of the natural world. Weaving joy and heartbreak, this bittersweet, lyrical memoir is a truly moving odyssey - it will make you yearn to jump on a ship and let the winds pull you away... * Beth Morrey, Sunday Times bestselling author * Enchanted Islands is beautifully written, moving and heartfelt, but also funny: sharply observed travel-writing cleverly interwoven with memoir, myth and the tribulations of a single woman in lockdown. Laura Coffey writes with sensuous vividness about Mediterranean islands, Homer's Odyssey and her father's illness and death. If you loved H is For Hawk or Grief is the Thing with Feathers, this book is for you. * Nick Higham, Author and former presenter, Meet the Author, BBC News * Sparkling and changing like the sea in all its shades of darkness and light, Laura's beautifully written odyssey is about embracing your freedom, becoming the goddess and weaving and unweaving your story. It gently reminds us that in life, we don't get to choose the route, but we can find islands of enchantment. * Jennifer Barclay, travel writer * This is travel writing at its finest. Local colour, history, memoir, and an emotional journey through grief and joy weave together beautifully. It is literary without pretension, informative while entertaining, moving and heartfelt while also being sharply funny. The best travel writing inspires us to journey ourselves, and this book made me long for warm Mediterranean islands. A triumph of a first book from an enchanting author. * Dr Noah Charney, bestselling author and BBC presenter * I raced through this book, heart hammering, in a single sitting. It's about a death, and about the pandemic, love and loss and yearning. But as much, if not more, it's a book about the joyful, agonising, complicated business of being alive. Coffey's words sing of sun on the skin, of cold water and ripe fruit. The ideas are profound, the language exquisite. I can't wait to see it soar. * Marianne Levy, author of Don’t Forget to Scream *
