If this is your usual sort of read you will probably enjoy this book. It flows easily and has a feel good factor running throughout the novel. It is not overly swamped by the spiritual aspects in the book it's just a little tedious. The subject matter, already covered by "Shirley Valentine", is one of woman in love , woman not in love, woman searching for herself, woman finds herself, woman in love, and so on.
Having said that the actual descriptive sections are very nice and do evoke the sense of immersion in the various cultures, if somewhat shallow in content. Having travelled extensively through India and Indonesia, I was hoping to read some beautiful prose setting the scene for each section of the story, but they were rather too few and far between
The characters are just a little unreal and a few "normal" folk sprinkled liberally within the text would have made the whole story a little bit more believable.
It is still a pleasant read just not a stunning one.