Coasting

By Elise Downing,

Book cover of Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain - Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

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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 a shiny…

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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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