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Sue Young has never asked for much apart from a quiet life. She’s always been happy with her call centre job and dinner on the table at six o'clock. That was until a tragedy tore her tranquility into little shreds. With her life in tatters, Sue is persuaded to join a charity cycle ride led by morning TV’s Kath Fuller, who is having a crisis of her own, and Sue’s self-appointed support crew are struggling with their own issues. 

When I was 12, I walked from Durban to Lourenco Marques with my elder brother, Neville, and my father. It took us two weeks to complete the 372 miles, sleeping mostly on the side of the road, often walking from before dawn until after sundown.

The Blue Bicycle: A Christmas Birthday Memory is a warm and nostalgic true story about a young girl whose birthday falls on Christmas Day. All she wants is a blue bicycle with a tall sissy bar — a dream she holds close to her heart. On one unforgettable Christmas morning, she discovers a mysterious shape hidden beneath a sheet in the garage. When the cover is lifted, her long-hoped-for bicycle is revealed, shining in the glow of family love and childhood wonder.

In this "amusing, insightful, and nuanced memoir about building a new relationship in middle age, a tandem bike is both character and metaphor". The bike offers the new couple an ongoing physical challenge and an arena that requires cooperation and negotiation to assemble a new marriage on the detritus of multiple divorces, breakups, and a death.

[Contains explicit content] Susie looks at how bicycles helped usher in a new sexual freedom for women in the 1800s. Next, a record number of Americans aren't having sex. Is the species doomed or are the surveys all smoke and mirrors?