You Run Marathons? Funny, You Never Mentioned It!

A Tale of Middle Age Obsession

von Ariel Wisherty

166 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The magazine said Sorry. Then her sister said yes.Jen Marlow is thirty-nine, works in HR, and has entered the ballot for the big one three years running, with a glass of wine, in the way you do. Three Octobers running a magazine has come through the door with Sorry on the front. Then her sister Kate, who has run five and cannot get through a conversation about a fence without mentioning Berlin, rings with a charity place, a fundraising target of two thousand pounds, and six days to say yes."I'm not a runner," says Jen. It lasts three weeks.What follows is sixteen weeks. A plan on the fridge with a picture of a woman on a towpath. A fundraising page in everyone's inbox and forty-eight brownies made at midnight. A watch the size of a biscuit that tells her, before she opens her eyes, to consider a lighter day. Shoes with plates in them, kept in a box next to her wedding shoes. A treadmill in the children's playroom, and a five-year-old who moves into the box it came in. A vicar who says a half marathon is "the same thing really", and lives to regret it. A running club called the Wednesday lot, a woman called Maureen who has done forty-one and calls everyone duck, and a canal with three hedges and a duck Jen can no longer look at. A sore shin she tells four people is a stress fracture. And a husband, Dan, a plumber, who has knees like a chair, will hold a sign and never run, and keeps a list on the fridge of everyone who has muted her.The fourth book in the Funny, You Never Mentioned It! series is a very British comedy about the thing that happens to a perfectly normal person when someone says yes: the vocabulary, the money, the Sundays, the evangelism, the wall at mile twenty, and a sign with one word in the corner.For anyone who has run a marathon, is training for one, or lives with someone who will not stop talking about theirs. The perfect gift for the runner with a medal on a hook and the partner who put the hook up.It's just a long jog. Says Kate.

• ISBN: 9798175102391
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp