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Award-Shortlisted Cycling Memoir

Travel Writing

Where There's A Will : Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

by Emily Chappell

Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Non-Fiction Award 2020 'Chappell is a gifted storyteller' - Observer In 2015 Emily Chappell embarked on a formidable new bike race: The Transcontinental.


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About the book

4,000km across Europe, unassisted, in the shortest time possible. On her first attempt she made it only halfway, waking up suddenly on her back in a field, floored by the physical and mental exertion. A year later she entered the race again - and won. Where There's a Will takes us into Emily Chappell's race, grinding up mountain passes and charging down the other side; snatching twenty minutes' sleep on the outskirts of a village before jumping back on the bike to surge ahead for another day; feeding in bursts and navigating on the go. We experience the crippling self-doubt of the ultra distance racer, the confusing intensity of winning and the desperation of losing a dear friend who understood all of this.

Book details

Published by Profile Books Ltd

Paperback ISBN: 9781788161527 5 Nov 2020 129 x 197 x 21 (mm) 208g