Book Club Questions for Baby and a Backpack

If you want to use my book  Baby and a Backpack for your book club or reading group – thank you so much! Here are some questions you might like to use.

1. Which of Jane’s personality traits helped her deal with her childhood? Do you think they also helped her on her journey?
2. How do you think Jane’s relationship with men was affected by her relationship with her father? What do you think of the Dazzler?
3. Would you consider Jane’s decision to take Poppy around the world – a responsible parenting decision?
4. When Jane tells stories of her childhood, which story stands out for you the most and why?
5. If Jane’s mother hadn’t become ill, what kind of mother do you think she would have been?
6. Which character stood out the most for you and why?
7. Jane experienced a transformation from teenager (wild child) to mother to woman. Do you think this transformation happens (and in that order) to all females?
8. How do you think living in Bali affected Jane’s  life choices?
9. Did the ending turn out the way you expected? How did you feel about it?
10. How did reading the book affect you?
11. If you had no limitations, what would you do with your life?

 

 

 

Baby and a Backpack: Pictures from the Book

These are pictures from  the Book I wrote Baby and a Backpack

Living in Bali before I met The Blonde.

Pregnant with Poppy in Glastonbury

At the airport with a 12 week old baby and an around-the-world ticket.

Villa Poppy in Bali.

Poppy in the English Countryside helping me to garden.

The Dazzler, my father when he was a wrestler.

Me, a wild teenager living with my mother.

It took me a quite a while to get fit and well again after my teenage years

Poppy in Hawaii with her freind the parrot

In LA with Ted

Rosemary, the kind lady who helped me in England.

Gwellar, Rosemary’s dog

Poppy’s Nana Helen; such a wonderful woman.

With my sister Kay when we were kids

I got to see my brother Dax again in 2014. Sadly I do not get to see him for years at a time because we live so far apart.

Dax and Kay together again too.

The baby shoes I had made for the front cover of my book.