She wanted to get out of her prison-like home-based job, so she decided to go backpacking in Australia.
Rachel Fletcher
“It was making me go not-so-slowly crazy with isolation and sensory deprivation,” Rachel Fletcher says.
It was like being in prison, except that in prison the convicts know what they’re being punished for and can look forward to the day they get out.
“All I could see every day was the view of the sandstone flats opposite, like in Rear Window,” she says, “though with no murderer out to get me (that I know of. It was Glasgow, so anything was possible).”
She had moved from London to Scotland with her boyfriend but it wasn’t the only thing that was bothering her.
Rachel had to cancel some travel plans a few years before that, when her father became ill and died of cancer.
On top of that, her partner proposed a few months earlier, but she was so confused and depressed that she couldn’t make any decision.
So in the end, she set off Down Under, to try to decide whether to get married, to come to terms with my father’s death, and forget about the job hunt.
