Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson

This book is a story of three women who go to the East on a missionary trip to the Silk Road city of Kashgar in 1923.  One of the women, Evangeline, brings her green bicycle along and has plans to write a guidebook for women riding their bikes in the East. Meanwhile, there is a parallel story set in modern London.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading a Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar and trying to figure out how the two separate story lines were going to converge. Suzanne Joinson's research was amazing and she did a great job of evoking the sounds, smell, and feel of Kashgar. I thought the modern sections were also well done, but found myself wanting to know more about the life of Evangeline and Irene Guy when they returned to England and why she had the owl as a pet.