Is it a good read? For the fact that this is Jamie Baywood's first published book, I would say it's pretty good (bearing in mind I don't tend to read this sort of stuff). Well, we learn more about the Governmental system in NZ, alongside the people there (who don't seem too dissimilar to the people in England, just unable to speak in an understandable accent.) We hear that there are picturesque places to be, and we learn how Jamie seems to move from bad to worse in her attempts at a) living comfortably in NZ and b) keeping her distance from men.ĭrawing cultural, religious and communicative parallels between the various countries that Jamie visits, we see that not only is this a humorous piece, but also well thought out. So, you learn that Jamie (the protagonist) is American, and she is in NZ to effectively remove herself from a masculine world that seems to have let her down (in more ways than one - reference list of bizarre relationships formed and disintegrated in California). I determined it was a cross between Adrian Mole (or possibly more accurately Adrian Plass, which is a parody take on the former) and something along the lines of Desperate Housewives or something of that ilk. This is why I was reading a book I would never normally pick up - it is what I might term a 'book for wifey'.įrom the off you realise that what one might have thought was a Bill Bryson-esque travel book actually isn't, and is more a series of diary entries into the life of a woman we simply don't know. Having been asked to help promote it I felt I ought to read it.
Getting Rooted in New Zealand (GRiNZ) was brought to my attention through a radio show I produce in Doncaster.
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