Leigh Platt Davison, author of “Sticky Situations: Stories of Childhood Adventures Abroad,” is an accomplished and successful school speaker and presenter and has spoken to groups ranging in age from pre-school to adult. Her enthusiasm and boundless energy is invigorating and motivating for many students. Her book is a unique collection of autobiographical stories of life overseas as the daughter of a CIA agent. Surviving eleven years of living in Europe and Southeast Asia, Leigh Davison captures the reader’s attention with entertaining, witty and insightful accounts of the adventures and “sticky situations” she and her family experienced.

“I was a teenager when I found out what my father ‘really’ did for a living. I finally discovered the truth when I overheard my mother asking my father whether our ‘phones were being tapped.’ I could not believe my ears! Did she just ask if our phones were tapped? My father answered, ‘Yes, I’m afraid so.’”

Unbeknownst to Davison, until she turned 14, her father was a covert CIA agent. Her family spent five years in Austria during the Cold War, three years in Laos (Thailand) while the Vietnam conflict raged on and three years in France while the Cold War slowly ended. The family led a nomadic lifestyle, but one filled with excitement, ups & downs, drama and comedy.

Our world grows smaller every day with the incredible advances in technology. What better way to remember the past and learn about different cultures than with a book dedicated to sharing history? This 184-page gift book - some 50 short stories - is beautifully designed with some scattered photos of places and friends.  It is a fast read and a pleasure of many more smiles than tears.

Praise for Sticky Situations!

From the readers…

"Leigh’s recollections of her action-packed childhood are simply a delight to read. She meets the challenges posed by the disparate cultures of Austria, Laos and France as mere bumps in the road of life to be overcome with humor and compassion. These are qualities that Leigh shares with her parents and her lovably mischievous younger twin sisters. Combined with a measure of courage, they are the qualities that enabled the author to ski with adults in the Alps, deal with lizards in Laos and mad taxi drivers in Paris. You get the idea. It’s a mad, mad world and I can’t wait to read it again. I guess I just got stuck on it."

--To a fine writer and a wonderful family                                                                          -- Austin “Sy” Goodrich, author of: Born to Spy

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“The stories in “Sticky Situations” totally captured our attention and will remain in our memories forever!”

-- El Verano School – Ms. Dalenberg’s 5^th Grade Class, Sonoma, CA

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“This book is wonderfully written – it makes you feel as though you are there in the moment, experiencing what the author is feeling and thinking. My daughter, Amanda, (who is 12) read the book through once – and then I saw her reading it again! I asked her why and she said, ‘Mom, it’s a really good book!’”

-- Janeene Martin, Medford, NJ

Bio:

Leigh Platt Davison was born in Camp Lejeune, NC and raised all over the world by virtue of her father’s occupation (CIA) and as a result, lived in Europe and Southeast Asia. An avid writer, she has been published in Spies Wives, Chicken Soup for the Bride’s Soul, A Cup of Comfort for Inspiration, Nudges from God, BookBanter.com, and The Yarrow Brook Literary Review. She also has several other stories pending publication including, Leaving Home: Stories of Departure and Arrival, The Yahweh Sisterhood and Then Along Came an Angel. She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and currently resides in Lewes, DE with her husband, Harry and their two cats.