The Accidental Optimist

Emily Joy's Guide to Life looks for the Meaning of Life returning from VSO in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Now she's a GP mother of three in the Highlands instead of single doctor of 20,000 at the outset of civil war.

Ever wonder what life is all about, but are too busy to find out? 

Not one to pass up a challenge I set out to West Africa to save the world, save my soul, save lives, lose weight and find a man. Green Oranges on Lion Mountain tells just how successful I was at that.

One husband, two dogs, a mortgage, several jobs, three children two books and an audiobook later, I'm too bogged down with the minutae of life to be saving the world. So, in The Accidental Optimist's Guide to Life I try and look on the bright side of life past my daily domestic chaos.

Emjoy!

Em@accidental-optimist.com

Books and audio book can be ordered at bookshops, or online from:

Amazon,  eye.books or sales@accidental-optimist.com

• Green Oranges on Lion Mountain the book (ISBN 1903070290)

• Green Oranges, the dramatised version available on CD (ISBN 1903070465).

• The Accidental Optimist's Guide to Life (ISBN 1903070437). 

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PRIME PLAYERS

Terry Langdale www.primesyd.com

Terry moved to the Highlands in 2003 to follow his passion for acting, singing and creative writing. Terry has worked with Emily on several projects, including producing the Green Oranges audio-book; performing characters at Book Festivals and readers days, and helping to produce (with the support and encouragement of the Highland art network and local community) and host a charity fund-raiser weekend of theatre, music and art events at the Strathpeffer Spa Pavilion, in aid of Kambia Hospital, in March 2007.  www.kambia.org.uk.

Terry runs a role-play business, alongside acting Murder Mysteries and tv/film, solo performances with Inverness Opera and theatre and screenwriting. His recently acting roles include: 'Robert Southey' with Out of the Darkness Theatre Co, and  'Harris, the butler' in a feature-length film with an Inverness based independent film-making team.