Author(s): Lucy Neville

Travel Narrative

Having graduated from university with an impressive-sounding but slightly directionless arts degree, Lucy Neville was faced with two choices - get a job or run away. Taking what she thought was the easy option, she decided to escape to Mexico City. Arriving with little money, Lucy's 'To Do' list was simple enough: find a job and a place to live then start learning Spanish. The first part turned out to be easy enough, with Lucy scoring a job teaching English as a second language at one of the city's countless English schools. Finding a place to live was another matter entirely ...Enter Octavio, a tall, handsome Mexico-City-local with a room to rent - next door to where William Burroughs shot his wife no less. But things soon got complicated, with Lucy falling headlong in love - but not just with one man but with two. Set against the vibrant background of one of the world's most dangerous cities, this book is a classic young woman's travel memoir lit up by great warmth, wit, wisdom and pizzazz. With an eye for the bizarre and comic, her engaging account of love and life in a big, bustling Third-World city is irresistible.