Having already made her mark with her original volume of memoirs. A Dublin Childhood. Edith Newman Devlin now delivers a further series of personal memoirs, Brief Encounters, a collection of travel writing based on trips she has made that were inspired by her many and varied literary and cultural connections. She writes about such exotic places as communist Russia, Siberia, China, Katmandu, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Africa and even Outer Mongolia with her trademark wit and compassion.