Beyond the Horizon - A Year of Discovery

One year. No itinerary. Three one-way tickets to Bangkok.

Clara has a colour-coded spreadsheet and a quiet terror of standing still. Leo can repair almost anything, which is a problem, because not everything is broken. Maya has been drawing since she was six and has never once shown her work to anyone whose opinion she actually wanted.

What they expect is adventure. What they get is a sleeper bus that fails at two in the morning, a map that dissolves in a monsoon, a mountain that refuses to let them over, and a tiled bathroom floor in Marrakech at four a.m. And, threaded through it, the things nobody puts on a postcard: a woman who draws them a route on the back of an order slip, a guide who tells Leo that some things are not there to be mended, a farmer's wife who asks Maya a question no one has ever thought to ask her.

Then, with the year nearly gone, they do the one thing they never planned for.

They separate.

A novel about exhaustion, missed trains, small kindnesses, and the unglamorous work of becoming someone.