prana soup: an indian odyssey

Margaret Halliday was born in England in 1949. She moved to Edinburgh, married, raised two children and qualified as a science teacher. After her marriage broke up in 1986 she went to lecture at Marmara University in Istanbul, undeterred by the onset of multiple sclerosis. Later she taught EFL in Budapest and Damascus, exploring their environs widely in her holidays. She travelled alone, aged fifty, to India, fell in love with the country and returned for two more six-month trips. She kept diaries throughout and these evolved into ’Prana Soup - an Indian Odyssey’, published 2013. After her Indian adventures she became a ’WWOOFer’ (a worldwide worker on organic farms) in New Zealand and later Scotland. She is now settled in Edinburgh, virtually travelling through her writing, although she still goes on the occasional trip. She published a second book, Good Vibrations, about her experience of single motherhood in the sixties (2015) and has written a third about her time as a WWOOFer, WWOOFing North and South, published 2016.