Showing posts with label Jamie Baywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamie Baywood. Show all posts

Friday, 9 August 2013

Debut Spotlight: Jamie Baywood

Tonight's debut spotlight is something a little different as it's highlighting the debut novel from Jamie Baywood writing about her own experiences about moving to New Zealand.

Craving change and lacking logic, at 26, Jamie, a cute and quirky Californian, impulsively moves to New Zealand to avoid dating after reading that the country's population has 100,000 fewer men. In her journal, she captures a hysterically honest look at herself, her past and her new wonderfully weird world filled with curious characters and slapstick situations in unbelievably bizarre jobs. It takes a zany jaunt to the end of the Earth and a serendipitous meeting with a fellow traveler before Jamie learns what it really means to get rooted.