Book description
Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2021
Running away from your problems doesn't solve anything - but sometimes it's more fun than dealing with them
Elise was spending a lot of time crying on buses. She had just graduated from university; she had…
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1 author picked Coasting as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A book I read fairly recently about a woman who started adventuring in her twenties, at a much younger age than me. Yet her story of running around the coast of Britain still gave me a great sense of solidarity, particularly because she wasn’t a very good runner when she started and couldn’t read a map. Thank you, Elise! Ditto!
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