FARE FORWARD, VOYAGER: The Story of a Brave, Foolish Girl

Sofia is a privileged, headstrong Italian teenager who longs to break free of her repressive parents and attend medical school. She reluctantly accedes to their insistence that she travel a different course, and begins a life of adventure and misadventure that takes her to London, Rome, Naples, Sydney and Geneva - from falling in love with a dashing Italian "physician" to periods of debt and deprivation, from glorious highs to crippling illness and despair. At every stop in her journey, Sofia faces difficult choices, but no matter how challenging the voyage, she fares on, sometimes thoughtfully, sometimes impetuously, to the journey's end.