A review by actualresultsmayvary
Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing

adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.5

Usually I find sports autobiographies almost unbearably boring but Coasting was a delight to read. Downing is so honest and real and human and she really makes it sound like something you could do, it almost makes me forget that I hate running! It was more the story of Downing's life over her ten month journey rather than a story about running.
The journey around the coast almost followed the structure of a journey from a fantasy story and was engaging in exactly the same way, I think that Downing is clearly a talented author with a brilliant voice and I would read anything else she might write, fiction or non-fiction.