The Gap traces my adventures as I try to accommodate a new MS diagnosis with achieving my dreams.
Discovering that I might lose use of my legs, the race is on to fulfill my life’s mission of travelling and working around the world, searching along the way for love and meaning.
Across continents and cultures, my story navigates highs and lows, loves and loss, opportunities grasped and some misunderstood. I meet the love of my life at Uluru and travel to Glasgow to pursue the relationship only to watch it slip away.
I join a UNESCO-sponsored course in an effort to find a career that might change the world, but my hopes are dashed as my MS worsens.
I travel to Southern Spain to seek a healthier, non-medical approach to managing my disease, trek through South America, and gets detoured to New Zealand on the promise of my perfect match.
I seek enlightenment and meaningful work in India before meeting up with the father I hadn’t seen for three decades in Thailand and learning some home truths.
Behind me is the constant spectre of home – and it becomes clear that, despite my nomadic ways, I’ve always been looking for a place to truly belong.
A chance message from my long lost Scottish love sees my returning to Scotland where I realise everything I’ve been searching for was at home all along.
The book is a clarion call for those feeling trapped, misplaced or simply in need of encouragement, strength and support, in troubled times. It articulates that they can still achieve everything they desire and more despite being dealt a bad hand.
A little Eat, Pray, Love, a little Wild, a little Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness, The Gap is a hopeful book about never giving up despite what life throws at you and how sometimes you can search the world for something that was within you all the time.