The memoir of a courageous woman on a quest to find love and places to belong
“This is the tale of a woman who bravely opens doors and thus has astounding adventures and enlightenments. All in the context of what can only be called an adventure story and an extraordinary life.” – Thomas Keneally
Accidental Aid Worker is the travel memoir of the adventurous Sue Liu who stumbles into voluntary aid work in the wake of the 2004 tsunami during the civil war conflict in Sri Lanka. She teams up with a tour guide, a Catholic priest and a community of refugees and so begins a ten-year obsession with helping people in need. Through tragic events, Sue meets the larger than life Geraldine Cox and spreads her generosity to help orphaned children in Cambodia.
This is a moving and real account of one woman’s drive to survive and support others while masking battles of her own. Along the way, Sue loses her grip on life and embarks on a harrowing journey through mid-life crisis, disconnection, and chronic depression. She is forced to face inescapable truths about herself in order to navigate her way to the woman she really wants to be.
Sue shares her most vulnerable moments with warmth and bare honesty, alongside epic travel adventures and quirky tales involving; priests, nuns, a rabbi, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, a tuktuk accident, refugees, orphaned children, surgeries, fishing for marlin and at times, spontaneous singing and dancing with children.
This heartwarming and thought-provoking story will make you laugh, bring you to tears, inspire a thirst for travel, a yearning to give back and pause for thought about what really makes us all tick.
Accidental Aid Worker was launched on 1 November 2015. It is a self-publishing project by Sue Liu and Zulu Communications.
Find out more at accidentalaidworker.com.au
Paperback - $35
ISBN: 978-0-9941727-4-7
Published: November 2015
Publisher: Zulu Communications
Distributor: Woodslane Pty Ltd
This limited edition 3rd reprint copy has a memento cover with cello glazed outer and full-colour photographs on the inside front and back covers- Copies personalized and signed by Sue
- Gifts include a free card, numbered puzzle token (1 - 750), and special bookmark with blessed string.
- Pages: 394
PRICE: $35.00 (inc GST)
PACKAGE WEIGHT: 600g
DELIVERY: Australia-wide and International delivery via Australia Post - calculated on check-out.
E-book - $9.00
ISBN: 9780994172761
Formats: epub-ibooks and mobi - Kindle