A life less
ordinary.
From a quiet English village to a world beyond imagining. A life lived, a few lessons learned, and a story to share.
JUST A STORY WORTH TELLING.
THE JOURNEY IS THE STORY.…an unlikely story
An ordinary beginning.
An unlikely story.
You never quite know where life will take you. That’s rather the point.
A boy growing up in the Buckinghamshire countryside. A career that began at the Foreign Office in 1972. A working life shaped by diplomacy, communications, and the Middle East.
Open Road is Steve Martin’s personal account of the people, places, and unexpected turns along the way.
Step inside the storyISBN 9798325824753
A curious mind.
A life well travelled.
From the English countryside
to a much wider world.
Born in Aylesbury and raised in Great Hampden, Steve joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1972. His career took him into diplomacy and public affairs, with much of his working life spent in the Middle East.
After joining HSBC in Dubai as Head of Public Affairs in 1998, he continued working in communications until retiring in 2020. Writing his memoir opened another door: helping other people tell the stories of their own lives.
Follow the journeyFrom Aylesbury to the village of Great Hampden, then High Wycombe Royal Grammar School. The beginning of a journey that would reach far beyond home.
The Foreign Office, diplomacy, and a career in public affairs and communications. A working life spent largely in the Middle East, including HSBC in Dubai.
Retirement in 2020 made room for another kind of journey: looking back, writing Open Road, and discovering a love of helping others preserve their own life stories.
There’s more to the story.
A PLACE TO BEGINEvery life has a story
worth keeping.
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