Krueger presents seven tales, mainly featuring feminist heroines on the move… The female protagonists of Hard Travel set forth to fashion their own experience, rather than waiting for experience to fashion them. There is much human appeal in Lesley Krueger’s Hard Travel.

Winnipeg Free Press

Krueger has done quite a remarkable job with Hard Travel, her first book…. Hard Travel is a book about change–shifts in the axis of understanding that alter perception irrevocably. Each story builds to a crystalline moment of realization that heralds a new phase of life. Krueger does to judge the value of these changes, she observes and interprets.

The Vancouver Sun

Hard Travel is a collection of short stories that are not so much stories of action as stories of thought, strongly evoking a sense of place… The characters are interesting and finely drawn, and we are made to feel that we know and care about them. Krueger’s collection is both entertaining and thought-provoking, and makes for compelling reading.

Canadian Book Review Annual

Krueger’s prose is rich; her characters are people we recognize as today’s affluent well-educated young adults. She makes us care about their problems. You have to pause at the end of each story to absorb it, feel its nuances, see it again in your mind. Each one unfolds as if it were a well-produced television drama, complete in itself. Hard Travel is Lesley Krueger’s first published book. She is a writer to watch.

St. John Telegraph-Journal

The final story, Merle-oh!… is first person, energetic and unsentimental as the narrator remembers her college days of anti-Vietnam war demonstration and U.S. draft resisters… The story is subtly drawn and it conveys the confusions and profound loneliness of early adulthood with deft, clear strokes.

The Globe and Mail