Chris Meirick - You’re Dead To Me

1st edition, self-published, 2025 (150 copies only)

Format: Hardback, 205x245

Pages: 148

Condition: New

Fifteen countries, thirty-one flights, eighteen train trips, seventeen long-distance bus journeys, seventy-seven different beds, and one Vietnamese hospital stay later, the once-in-a-lifetime ‘Screw the System’ round-the-world trip was to result in Chris and his wife’s divorce — with mental and financial turmoil served as the grand finale, back in the bleak English January winter.This unfortunate outcome was a stark contrast to the joy, happiness, and ambition witnessed in every country visited during the year of travel. Regardless of destination — North, South, East, or West — globalisation seemed to be in charge. Everyone was chasing the same capitalist-sponsored ‘Dream’: gain a good education, learn English, secure a promising job, fall in love, get married, buy a car, travel, and have children. The ‘Perfect Life’.For many, this is the journey they’re fortunate enough to ride. For others, the road takes a wrong turn — they become trapped in a dead-end relationship, and end up on a Greek therapist’s chair in Hampstead, planning another escape to rebuild a shattered existence… before time runs out and old age shows up uninvited.

of destination — North, South, East, or West — globalisation seemed to be in charge. Everyone was chasing the same capitalist-sponsored ‘Dream’: gain a good education, learn English, secure a promising job, fall in love, get married, buy a car, travel, and have children. The ‘Perfect Life’.

For many, this is the journey they’re fortunate enough to ride. For others, the road takes a wrong turn — they become trapped in a dead-end relationship, and end up on a Greek therapist’s chair in Hampstead, planning another escape to rebuild a shattered existence… before time runs out and old age shows up uninvited.