Love with a Chance of Drowning Author: Visit Amazon's Torre DeRoche Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1401341950 | Format: EPUB
Love with a Chance of Drowning Description
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"A funny, irresistibly offbeat tale about the risks and rewards of living, and loving, with an open heart."
Kirkus Reviews"Wow, what a book. Exciting. Dramatic. Honest. Torre DeRoche is an author to follow."
Australian Associated Press"DeRoche has penned such a beautiful, thrilling story you'll have to remind yourself it's not fiction."
Courier Mail"Hilarious... recounts the adventure of a lifetime."
Vogue"The story of how DeRoche overcame her fears, her self-deprecating humour and her way with words would have been enough to make this a great story. The fact her Argentinian boyfriend combines the passion of a Latin lover with the grit and spirit of a Scandinavian seafarer makes this book a Hollywood dream come true."
Sydney Morning Herald"In
Love With a Chance of Drowning, Torre DeRoche has given reluctant adventurers, romantics, and lovers of beautifully-told tales a compulsively good read. I was positively swept away by this large-hearted, hilarious story about how deeply and unexpectedly a person can be transformed by love."—
Suzanne Morrison, Yoga Bitch"If I could give it ten stars out of five, I would. I loved every single page--Torre's writing is hilarious, beautiful, poignant, and engaging--which is to say nothing about the fact that this is her TRUE story!"—
Jenny Blake, author of Life after CollegeAbout the Author
Torre DeRoche is an Australian native and self-proclaimed fearful adventurer. When she's not at home in Melbourne, Australia, DeRoche is at large in the world, exploring, writing, painting pictures, and snapping photos, as she faces her fears one terrified step at a time. Stories of her adventures can be found at www.fearfuladventurer.com
- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Hyperion (May 14, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401341950
- ISBN-13: 978-1401341954
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
"Some people die of old age without ever having lived their dreams. Some people die without ever having loved. That's tragic. We'll both die someday, that's a guarantee. If something happens on the ocean, we'll die as two people in love who are living a remarkable adventure..."
Torre DeRoche planned to spend a year in the US working and then return home to Australia. Instead she fell in love with an Argentinian and despite a fear of the sea, agreed to sail with him across the Pacific. Love With a Chance of Drowning tells of Torre's adventures aboard the Amazing Grace during her journey to conquer the ocean, and her fears.
Torre wasn't looking for a relationship when she met Ivan in a San Francisco bar but charmed by his Latin good looks and kind, considerate nature she fell head over in heels in love. Yet their separation seemed inevitable, Torre had promised to return to Australia at the end of the year and Ivan planned to throw in his IT job and sail solo across the ocean. As the end began to draw near, Ivan suggested Torre join him and she was faced with a difficult choice, sail away with her lover or say goodbye. Despite her fear of deep water, disaster and ""anything that would fall out if you turned the ocean upside down and shook it" Torre's decides to surrender her comfortable city lifestyle for a love on a 32ft wooden boat in the middle of nowhere.
Though I have little interest in sailing (and my own fearful respect for the sea), I really enjoyed this entertaining memoir of (mis)adventure. The humour is engaging, Torre has no problem poking fun at her own obsession with safety equipment, her horrendous bouts of sea sickness and Ivan's innate clumsiness.
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