For Better For Worse, For Richer For Poorer

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40th Birthday
50th Birthday
a passion for the slow life
A Year in the Merde
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adventures of a family
Afloat
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Author_Siobhan Horner
Auxerre
Bastard
Bill Cooper
Bourgogne
Burgundy
Calais
Camargue
Campervan
Camping
Canal Boat
Canal du Midi
Carcassonne
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Chris Stewart
Couple
Cruise
Cruising
David Edwards-May
David Jefferson
Davisons
Downsize
Downsizing
Driving over Lemons
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French Barge
French Canals
French Waterways
Grand Union Canal
Hornfleur
Hoseasons
Hugh McKnight
Inland Waterways
John Liley
LateBoat
Leave London
Leboat
Life Change
Lille
Liveaboard
Locaboat
Locks
Mad Men
Marian Martin
Mediterranean
Merde Actually
Michael Wright
Mid life crisis
Mumsnet
Narrowboat
Nivernais
No Going Back
open account of husband and wife
Peter Mayle
Provence
Retired
Rick Stein
Sailing
Seine
Somme
Stephen Clarke
This is 40
true story
Tunnels
Turning 40
Watersteps
Wooden Boat
Yacht
Year in Provence

Product details

  • ISBN 9780753823224
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Jun 2010
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A hilarious, true story of life-change, no going back, 40th birthdays and mid-life crisis. Follow the adventures of a husband and wife (plus two small children) as they take a barge through the French canals towards the Bourgogne and Canal du Midi - with The Mediterranean and Spain beckoning.

Damian Horner is scared that fifteen years in advertising have turned him into a bastard. As he approaches his fortieth birthday, he wants to see if he can be a good husband and a good father before it's too late. Siobhan, his wife, would like to find out too but has other worries. Do marriage and kids mean she's now trapped in a world of suburban domesticity?

It takes a miserable day and a bottle of wine to change everything. Suddenly Damian and Siobhan decide to throw their lives in the air and escape to the French canals, taking with them their son Noah who is two years old and can barely talk, and their daughter India who is one and cannot walk.

Told in two voices, we hear both sides of their story and get the whole truth as Damian and Siobhan describe coming to terms with themselves and their life on board an old fishing boat in France with no space, no fridge, no charts, no deadlines and no flushing toilet.

Damian Horner (Author)
Damian Horner is a highly successful PR and marketing expert. At WCRS, one of London's top agencies, he worked on the iconic 'I bet he drinks Carling Black label' campaign. He was the youngest ever business director at Lowes, and then helped launch Mustoes, where he worked with clients as diverse as Sony, Lever Brothers and Prudential. This is his first book.

Siobhan Horner (Author)
Siobhan Horner is a highly successful PR and marketing expert. She had a highly successful career in the travel industry before starting a family. Her favourite job was as Marketing Director for the New Zealand Tourism Board. She left to become a freelance marketer covering travel as well as non-travel brands such as NEW SCIENTIST magazine.

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