OxTravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (Profile Books, May 2011)
‘The chance that sat Sonia Faleiro next to an Indian maid returning from the Gulf, on the wrong plane as it turns out, gives us a brief but poignant glimpse of what millions of poor Indians will put up with to earn money from rich employers abroad.’
-Michael Palin, Introduction, Ox Travels
‘These tales are not pretty, but they do feel true. Sonia Faleiro gives a bald account of a conversation she had on a plane with an Indian maid returning from work in the Gulf, that is rendered in scant adjectives yet gives a brutal insight into life on the road for many migrant workers.'
-The Independent, May 22, 2011