The Royals and the Roaches: Living Abroad with the Government

by Patricia Hughes

"I belly-crawled across the floor after a bomb exploded outside our garden in Yemen...I had tea with Barbara Bush in the Yellow Room of the White House...I drove blindly into the midst of an anti-American riot in Venezuela...I joined in a folk dance led by Queen Margrethe in Denmark and I ate dinner with a prime minister in Israel." Patricia Hughes gives us a candid, tough-minded and fun look at living abroad at the behest of our government. She...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595314961
• ISBN13: 9780595314966
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great travel writing, with a twist

For those who have ever been curious about what Foreign Service types have experienced in living overseas - or who enjoy the travel writings of Paul Theroux, Robert Byron or Rebecca West - I strongly recommend "The Royals and the Roaches." Written by a trailing spouse, it has nothing in common with the ponderous memoirs written by the likes of Henry Kissinger. This is about the life (or rather lives) we experience as global nomads. And most applies as much to the expat life of a businessman or missionary as it does to a diplomat.