Meet Me in Mumbai: A Memoir by Lovelace Cook

Meet Me in Mumbai: A Memoir by Lovelace Cook

It’s never too late for love…or a rite of passage.

What can possibly go wrong when Jesse asks the universe to help her get out of the rut her life has become? The universe delivers a curveball when Jesse meets a quirky but charming Englishman who visits her sleepy southern town, and they fall in love. Trevor loves wild camping, while Jesse values her creature comforts. A year after they meet, Jesse accepts Trevor’s challenge to meet him in Mumbai. Knit yourself a seat belt for their misadventures as the senior couple sets out like twenty-year-olds on a gap year, and Trevor’s shoestring travel style forces Jesse to adapt to unexpected challenges—not the least of which is Trevor being technologically and directionally clueless.

Set in India, Cornwall, and Southeast Asia over three years, the couple navigates cultural differences and faces trials that test their relationship. Jesse confronts her inner demons while Trevor battles his own emotional ghosts. In the poignant culmination of their adventures, Jesse makes a life-altering decision with bittersweet consequences. A testament to her profound transformation and self-discovery, Jesse’s adventures with Trevor transcend geographical boundaries, forever changing her worldview. Meet Me in Mumbai celebrates the power of love, the courage to embrace uncertainty, and the resilience of the human spirit.

“Meet Me in Mumbai proved to me it takes more than just empathy and keen observation, perhaps tons of unconditional and unbiased compassion, to absorb so much in strange lands, on a journey that hurls many challenges at us. While getting out of her comfort zone, Lovelace Cook captivated me with her intoxicating freedom.” Jayanthi Sankar, multiple international award-winning author, Singapore.

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Lovelace Cook is a storyteller, writer, podcaster, and narrator. She worked in NYC for magazine publishing and television and worked on feature films in LA while attending film production and screenwriting classes at UCLA and the American Film Institute. She traveled through and lived in India, SE Asia, and the UK from 2013-2016. The books, authors, and films she discovered influenced her podcast Bollywood & Books, and her misadventures on the road, traveling like a twenty-year-old on a gap year, inspired her novel Meet Me in Mumbai.