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Confessions of an Ageing Cyclist
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Series: Confessions of the Ageing Sports Players, Book 10
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ISBN13: 9798259013636
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A novel about cycling, illness, childhood memory, and the stories we tell when life refuses to follow the route map Confessions of an Ageing Cyclist is a funny, tender and quietly powerful novel about family, fear, resilience and the strange ways we learn to keep going. At its heart is a boy's summer diary: sharp-eyed, awkward, comic, confused, and often much wiser than he realises. Around him are parents, siblings, neighbours, bikes, school holidays, secrets, misunderstandings, and the ordinary rituals of family life. But beneath the surface, something more serious is unfolding. The book follows the emotional terrain of a family living alongside prostate cancer: the waiting, the tests, the silences, the half-understood conversations, the sudden changes in mood, the comic evasions, and the moments of unexpected grace. It is not a medical textbook, nor a misery memoir. It is a story about how illness enters a household and alters its weather.
And, running through it all, is cycling. Not just cycling as sport, but cycling as metaphor: effort, endurance, falling off, getting back on, climbing, descending, losing the wheel, finding a rhythm, and discovering that the road ahead is rarely the one you thought you were on. About the book The novel is structured around the shape and spirit of the Tour de France. Its stages, climbs, time trials and recoveries echo another journey: the experience of diagnosis, treatment, uncertainty and survival. The result is a book that moves between humour and vulnerability, childhood and adulthood, memory and imagination. A child may not understand everything that is happening around him, but he notices more than the adults think. His diary becomes a place where the serious and the ridiculous sit side by side. There are bikes.There are family rows.There are coded messages.There are songs from the early 1990s.There is fear, though not always where you expect it.And there is love, often disguised as irritation. Confessions of an Ageing Cyclist is for readers who enjoy fiction that is accessible, layered and emotionally honest - a story that can make you smile before quietly catching you off guard. Themes
The book explores:
The book explores:
- growing up around things adults do not fully explain;
- the impact of cancer on families, not just patients;
- the comedy and awkwardness of childhood misunderstanding;
- cycling as endurance, escape and emotional language;
- masculinity, vulnerability and silence;
- memory, nostalgia and the early 1990s;
- how ordinary families cope with extraordinary pressure.
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