Wanderlust

Audrey Driscoll grew up in San Francisco with her grandfather, poring over the albums her travelling parents left behind. Her own wanderlust finally takes hold during the Depression, when she sets out to see as much of the world as she can.

Her journey carries her across Europe and on to China, where she falls in love and finds herself running an orphanage — and eventually brings one of the children home to San Francisco with her. But the pull of the road, and of the man she left behind, is stronger than the life waiting for her at home, and she returns to Europe just as the Nazis come to power.

Spanning the 1930s from San Francisco to the Great Wall of China, from North Africa to London during the Blitz, Wanderlust is a novel about a woman who refuses the life expected of her, and about what her freedom costs the people who love her.