The humour and the entertaining bits make one laugh out loud, but underlying this is the layer of pathos and longing. Hyperbole confronts understatement; sensitive and poetic passages of intense sympathy contrast with brutal reality.

Many of us have memories of our own innocence abroad.

Dry, witty, sad, funny and amazingly frank.

What a mixture! An awkward Aussie, a few screwball mates and four fascinating women. I don't think I've ever read a book before that so revealingly describes the influence a woman can have on a man - for better and for worse!

I really liked the subtext as well as the story.

Wanderlust talks about things that people think but do not say.

Highly entertaining.

I liked the surprise of it, the feeling that anything could happen. There is a time in life when one enters any open door. I guess that’s how you grow up.

Philosophical but not academic. A good read. A tribute to women.