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​HELEN NOTZL

Author of the new memoir,
Long Journey Home: A Prague Love Story
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About Helen​

For thrills I am a traveller, an adventure-seeker

For professional satisfaction I am an executive coach and a life coach 

For joy, for exhilaration, I am a rider of Paso Fino horses, the spunkiest, smoothest horses in the world, especially my beloved 22-year-old bay mare, Franchesca.

In my heart I am a Bohemian, born in Prague. A restless exile, a rebel, a transplant, grown up in Canada, living a wonderful life in Canada, enormously grateful to Canada - and forever pining for Prague, for Europe, for home -  for something, whatever and wherever it may be.

And for making sense of a life full of heartbreaks and triumphs, losses and recoveries, I am a writer. My memoir, Long Journey Home: A Prague Love Story, was published in 2018.
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What people are saying about Long Journey Home...

"Helen Notzl writes movingly, with verve, passion, and skill, about the heart in exile, the lifelong search for home. Her book is a searing exploration of what it means to love two countries, two cities, two languages, and two men."
"This is not a memoire for the faint-of-heart. Long Journey Home is both a frank love story and a searing indictment of oppression and bullying in all their forms – political, sexual, social, and relational. It is a celebration of independence of thought and life choices – and a call to risk the heart to live life to its fullest."  
"She fearlessly tackles a life long hunger for her family's roots by penetrating deep into the Czech country. Her questions need answers and Helen gets those answers in spite of scary Russian soldiers at every turn. Riding her little scooter into the heart of her homeland and meeting many new loves and friends, Helen kept going. I could not put this book down."​
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