Cycling Proficiency

<p>A wilfully ridiculous and thoroughly heartfelt travel memoir. Cycling Proficiency: the road to recovery is 4,500 miles of European pedal-mania with a crazy twist. The twist is that Alice Lushington is crazy. Not ‘cute’ crazy, not ‘bohemian’ crazy but bog standard, where-are-the-sandwiches-at-this-picnic crazy.</p><p><i>''I want to help people. I want somebody who is troubled to come across my story and realise the wild wonder beyond the horizon of recovery.</i><br><br><i>It is not a technical or pretentious book but one written precisely from my heart to yours, the reader put snuggly in my scruffy pink trainers and taken with me: through the highs, lows, deserts and mountains, underneath lightning, away from dogs and handsome French boys (but always towards recovery).</i><br><br><i>''It’s raw, it’s real, it’s excruciatingly honest about the darker shades of my life, however the dominant flavour of Cycling Proficiency is naïve fun and wacky humour. There''s one more big twist too: each chapter begins with a hand-drawn pencil illustration of some of the places, characters and scenes from my saga.''</i></p>