Brilliant... a biting critique of the orientalist gender and class attitudes that shape
Britain today. I loved it.' Preti Taneja It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime: the
open road London to Kathmandu just three young people looking for adventure. No one could
have predicted the way it ended and for fifty years the truth has been buried. But now Joyce
is ready to tell her story. London 1970. Fresh out of a dead-end job Joyce answers an ad
in the local paper: Kathmandu by van leave August. Share petrol and costs. Joyce is desperate
to escape life in suburbia and aristocrat Freddie looks like he can show her a wild time.
Together with Anton Freddie's best friend from boarding school they embark on the overland
trail from London to Kathmandu in a beaten-up old Land Rover. But as they cross the borders
into Asia Freddie can't outrun his family's history leading to devastating consequences for
everyone. Overland is a novel about youth privilege class and the sharp echoes of British
imperialism from one of the most exciting new voices in literary fiction.
