THE BOOK
Some journeys change where you end up.
Others change the story of your life.
Edie Dylan has been running away since she was two years old. In her early fifties, burnt out and desperate to escape London, she heads to Southeast Asia for a solo trip. But between beaches, a flatulent guide, and a horny fruit bat, there’s something that refuses to let her relax.
Thousands of miles away, Noor – a Syrian woman Edie has befriended through her refugee volunteer work – is also fleeing. She’s planning to board a rubber dinghy with her two young children. Edie knows the sea could kill them. She also knows why Noor is willing to risk it. As Noor’s journey unfolds on Edie’s phone, scenes from Edie’s own past begin elbowing their way in.
On a remote island in the South China Sea, Edie’s body remembers what her mind has erased, forcing her to confront the one thing she can never run from.
Poetic, honest and unexpectedly funny, Safe Distance is a memoir about travel, displacement and the long shadows a childhood can cast over an adult life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E.D. Dylan is a British-Zimbabwean writer, who spent nearly a decade as an online volunteer supporting people displaced by war.
She lives with her rescue dogs and writes poetry when the mood grabs her.
Safe Distance is her debut memoir.
CONTACT
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