A middle-aged mother is becoming a growing literary success after producing a book about her around-the-world travels with her husband.

In 2004 Joanna and Peter Kaye left their house in Weatherhead Place, Silsden, with just two backpacks and flight tickets from Dublin to Atlanta.

They arrived home 13 months later having experienced “emotional turmoil and upheaval with all the excitement, euphoria and joy mixed with the uncertainties, fears and anxieties of the travelling life”.

During their exotic adventures, taking in the likes of Mexico, New Zealand, Australia and America, Mrs Kaye had kept a diary of their day-to-day experiences, which she has spent the last few years turning into a book.

They paid for the book “Pass Me The Bacon Scissors Your Eyebrows Need Cutting” to be published by Author House, which is now selling it.

Mr Kaye said: “We wanted to travel by public transport as much as possible because that is where you meet the real people and experience the real culture.

“And we did meet some real people. The book is packed with so many good stories — you wouldn’t believe.”

Blighted by family tragedy along the way the couple had to cut their two-year trip short after 13 months, missing out parts of Asia, to come home.

Mr Kaye, a delivery driver and father-of-one, explained: “The title for the book was a sentence one of us said while we were travelling.

“You have so few things with you — just your backpacks, which are all your possessions — so you have to improvise.

“It just always stuck with us and we thought it summed up the travelling lifestyle.

The book is for sale on Amazon.