A story about falling in love – and proving it to the government – Sonya Kelly is back in How To Keep An Alien with a tearfully funny, tender memoir about securing an Irish visa for her Australian partner.

Join her madcap odyssey from the stony townlands of Ireland to the leafy depths of the Queensland bush.

It’s a tricky business coming from opposite ends of the earth. It takes an Olympian will and the heart of whale, but above all else, paperwork.

It takes a hell of a lot of paperwork.