The Kent Coast Cycling Lesson

The Kent Coast Cycling Lesson

By Tony Sears

Being about a relationship failing and neither partner having the means to move out. One of us (me) hatched a plan to escape at weekends, with the help of an old bike and a train ticket to Kent. There, I progressed along endless promenades and across margins both tidal and existential. On the way I discovered all sorts, including how I was not entirely blameless in our marriage breakdown. This life lesson is set in 1998–99, a time when mobile telephones and the internet were still new magic.

The Kent Coast Cycling Lesson is a narrative non-fiction piece that includes many coloured illustrations. It’s a work in progress that’s looking for a literary agent or publisher to help it into the world of books. tony_sears@hotmail.com / 07971 647818

CONTENTS

Prologue

Chapter 1 – Gravesend to Rochester – Sunday 15 March 1998

Chapter 2 – Rochester to Sittingbourne – Monday 13 April 1998

Chapter 3 – Sheppey – Sunday 17 May 1998

Chapter 4 – Sittingbourne to Whitstable – Saturday 6 June 1998

Chapter 5 – Whitstable to Ramsgate – Saturday 20 June 1998

Chapter 6 – Ramsgate to Dover – Friday 2 April 1999

Chapter 7 – Dover to Hythe – Saturday 17 April 1999

Chapter 8 – Hythe to Rye – Saturday 24 April 1999

Epilogue

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