An elegant and moving exploration of what it means to connect with strangers turns into an elegy for a much-missed way of life… while Hello, Stranger is a beautiful meditation on the pleasures and pains of a world to which many of us yearn to return, it may also be an elegy for a world that is lost to us for some time to come.
The Guardian
Review of HELLO, STRANGER
A wonderful mix of history, anthropology and psychology
The Herald, Scotland
Review of HELLO, STRANGER
Will Buckingham has written a moving memoir of finding solace, after the death of his life partner, in travelling and talking in lands such as Myanmar that are culturally distant from his native England.
The Economist
Review of HELLO, STRANGER
Humane and heart-warming
The Bookseller
HELLO, STRANGER, Editors' Choice
A glorious book, fabulously learned and funny, and filled with all manner of stirring stories.
Philip Marsden, author of The Summer Isles
Praise for HELLO, STRANGER
A treasure trove of all the possibilities strangers can be to each other. Read, learn and savour.
Madeleine Bunting, author of Labours of Love - The Crisis of Care
Praise for HELLO, STRANGER
Fascinating… As a memoir, ‘Stealing With the Eyes’ is powerful. Buckingham has a wonderful eye for detail, and the tale he has woven is gripping.