Handle with Care

 Handle with Care: Travels with My Family (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Delightful stories that'll take you places without having to move an inch!

Shreya Sen-Handley's Handle with Care is a blithe and zippy travelogue that chronicles her adventures around the globe. In tow, most of the time, is the 'quirky clan' comprising her British husband, their two children, and their dog.

Here are tales of the world beyond south Kolkata and Sherwood Forest - places they call home. From much-loved Indian locales like Rajasthan and Kerala to bustling international capitals like New York and Paris, from English idylls like Dorset and Haworth to the sleepy pleasures of Corfu - the journeys are described in vivid detail, seasoned with humour, and sprinkled with wise trip-tips. No matter how gruelling the trek, you weather the storms well, and while you're about it, have tons of fun, food and epiphanies. Mishaps or not, one learns, there is always magic to find.

Shreya Sen-Handley is the author of Memoirs of My Body (2017), which won the Best Nonfiction Book of the year at the NWS Writing Awards 2018, and the short-story collection Strange (2019). A Welsh National Opera librettist and the first South Asian woman to write international opera, she has collaborated with WNO on their film series Creating Change in 2020, and a 200-performer multicultural opera Migrations touring Britain in 2022. Her play Quiet was staged in London by Tara Theatre in 2021. Her short stories and poetry, published, broadcast, and shortlisted for prizes in India, Britain and Australia, also spearheaded a British national campaign against hate crimes in 2020. Shreya teaches creative writing at various institutions, including the University of Cambridge. She is also a columnist and illustrator. 

She lives with her husband, two children, and a dog, in Sherwood Forest.