Ithaca is a collection of personal essays, mostly about belonging and home. She has had an interesting life - a childhood in Ethiopia with missionary parents, a spell in the Australian army, Bible school, an attempt at the pilgrimage trail the Camino in Spain, among other adventures. It's a remarkably honest and engaged collection, thought provoking, emotional and confronting, as well as being brilliantly written and an effortless, frictionless read.