Janette Benaddi Libri

A Sunday Times Bestseller. The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge and broke a world record along the way. Janette, Frances, Helen and Niki, though all from Yorkshire, were four very different women, all juggling full time jobs alongside being mothers to each of their 2 children. They could never be described as athletes, but they were determined to be busy and the local Saturday morning rowing club was the perfect place to go to have a laugh and a gossip, get the blood pumping in the open air, and feel invigorated. Brought together by their love of rowing, they quickly became firm friends, and it wasn't long before they cooked up a crazy idea over a few glasses of wine: together, they were going to do something that fewer people than had gone into space or climbed Everest had succeeded in doing. They were going to cross 3,000 miles of treacherous ocean in the toughest row in the world, The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. Yes, they had children and husbands that they would be leaving behind for two months, yes they had businesses to run, mortgages to pay, responsibilities. And there was that little thing of them all being in their 40s and 50s. But two years of planning, preparation, fundraising, training and difficult conversations later, and they found themselves standing on the edge of the San Sebastian harbour in the Canary Islands, petrified, exhilarated and ready to head up the race of their lives. This is the story of how four friends together had the audacity to go on a wild, terrifying and beautiful adventure, not to escape life, but for life not to escape them

Von den Kanaren bis in die Karibik. An einem weinseligen Abend fassen Frances, Helen, Janette und Niki einen verwegenen Plan: Obwohl keine von ihnen je auf offener See gerudert ist, melden sich die Frauen für die »Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge« an. Und im Dezember 2015 lassen sie vier Ehemänner, acht Kinder, fünf Hunde, zwei Katzen, zwei Schlangen und eine Wüstenrennmaus an Land zurück. Für die nächsten 67 Tage wird die Rose ihr zu Hause sein, auf der sie den Ausläufern eines Hurrikans, einem gebrochenen Steißbein und einer kaputten Trinkwasserpumpe trotzen müssen. Mit ansteckendem Humor berichten sie, wie ihnen nach Jahren der Aufopferung für Familie und Beruf noch einmal der Ausbruch gelingt und wie sie sich als ältestes weibliches Team inmitten der Profis schlagen. Ein Loblied auf die Freundschaft und ein Beweis, dass man mit Frauen ab 45 immer noch rechnen muss.