A la fin des années 1960, Brigid Keenan est journaliste de mode à Londres quand elle rencontre son mari diplomate, futur ambassadeur de l'Union européenne. Suivent trente ans de voyages à travers le monde en tant que conjointe accompagnatrice : Ethiopie, Belgique, Barbade, Gambie, Inde, Syrie, etc. Recueil de souvenirs et d'anecdotes humoristiques.

Brigid Keenan was a glamorous, successful young London fashion journalist. But falling in love with a diplomat saw her leave behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in the forests of Nepal. Thirty years later (at the farewell party for the Papal Nuncio in Kazakhstan), Brigid found herself wondering whether her decision had been the right one. This is her hilarious account of her life as a "trailing spouse" - an utterly engaging tale of diplomatic protocol, difficult teenagers, homesickness, frustated career aspirations, witch doctors and giant jumping spiders.