Marrying Across Borders is an interesting, honest and easy to read book that helps us better understand the people around us in our modern cosmopolitan world. The author Sheela Burrell describes her own experience as a foreign wife who had to deal with homesickness, a new language, culture, food, and occasional racism. These and other challenges are illustrated by stories from the life of her relatives, friends and acquaintances.

This delightfully uplifting book, is worth reading and re-reading. It gives a fascinating insight into the author's experience of two cultures and faiths and the challenges, first of becoming a Christian in Malaysia and, then, of being plunged into a very different way of life through marriage and moving to Britain. Each very readable and eloquent chapter covers an aspect of the author's experience, such as homesickness, food, identity, racism and children. Her journey to a sense of belonging is told openly but with great humour, sensitivity and understanding. The pages reflect not only her courage and resilience but the depth and beauty of her Christian faith. This book is for everyone; not just those marrying across borders or for, whatever reason, having to settle in a different country. It contains wisdom for all who encounter the stranger in their midst and who, by their words and actions, want to make a positive difference to their experience.