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For Better For Worse, For Richer For Poorer

Damian Horner Siobhan Horner

Husband and wife's combined accounts of navigating the French canals from Calais down to Spain with two small children.

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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.



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"there's a brilliant bit towards the end describing how a clever idea from Shiv fixed the boat and saved the day"

Sam Leith

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For Better For Worse, For Richer For Poorer

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£12.99
Hardback
352 pages
216 x 135 mm
ISBN-10: 0753817683
ISBN-13: 9780297854234
Publication: June 2009
'for better for worse, for richer for poorer' is also available in paperback format
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