Four Mums in a Boat: Friends who rowed 3000 miles, broke a world record and learnt a lot about life along the way. Janette Benaddi
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      JANETTE BENADDI is a 52-year-old businesswoman from Leeds. She is married with two children.

      HELEN BUTTERS is an NHS communications expert from North Yorkshire. She is 46 years old, married and has two children.

      FRANCES DAVIES is a solicitor running her own law firm in Leeds. She is 48 years old, married with two sons and lives in York.

      NIKI DOEG runs her own business and is a qualified rugby coach. She is 46 years old and lives in York with her husband and their two sons.

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      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2017

      Copyright © Janette Benaddi, Helen Butters, Niki Doeg and Frances Davies 2017

      Janette Benaddi, Helen Butters, Niki Doeg and Frances Davies asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © January 2018 ISBN: 9780008214821

       This book is dedicated to you. We hope itwill inspire you to conquer your own ‘ocean’,whatever it may be.

       JANETTE, HELEN, FRANCES AND NIKI

       ‘You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.’

       CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

      Contents

       Cover

       About the Authors

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Chapter 6 One Step Forward

       Chapter 7 Rose

       Chapter 8 Back Home

       Chapter 9 The North Sea

       Chapter 10 The Final Countdown

       Chapter 11 The Row

       Chapter 12 Christmas

       Chapter 13 Hurricane

       Chapter 14 Flow

       Chapter 15 Antigua

       Chapter 16 Re-entry

       Epilogue

       The Letters

       Photo Section

       CHAPTER 1

       La Gomera

       ‘To be is to do.’

      SOCRATES

       30 November 2015, San Sebastián Marina, La Gomera

      ‘This’, said Frances, shaking her head slowly as she stared at the waves smashing into the harbour wall below us, ‘is not an entry-level ocean.’

      Standing next to her, looking at the violent swell just outside San Sebastián Marina in La Gomera, the СКАЧАТЬ