Freya North - Freya North 3-Book Collection - Cat, Fen, Pip

This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Ebook Edition © 2012 ISBN: 9780007502202

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Title Page Cat Fen Pip Freya North

Copyright Copyright This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Ebook Edition © 2012 ISBN: 9780007502202 Version: 2017-11-29 FIRST EDITION All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Dedication For Emma O’Reilly Honest and true. And a great friend.

Map

Cat McCabe and the Tour De France

Jules Le Grand and Team Systeme Vipere

Rachel McEwen and Team Zucca Mv

Ben York and Team Megapac

Setting the Wheels in Motion

Prologue Time Trial: Delaunay Le Beau, Saturday 3 July

Stage 1: Delaunay Le Beau-Rouen. 195 kilometres

Stage 2: Rouen-Vuillard. 260 kilometres

Stage 3: Vuillard-Plumelec. 225 kilometres

Stage 4: Plouay-Chardin. 248 kilometres

Stage 5: Nantes-Pradier. 210 kilometres

Stage 6: Pradier-Bordeaux. 215 kilometres

Stage 7: Computaparc - Individual Time Trial. 54.5 kilometres

Stage 8: Sauternes-Pau. 162 kilometres

Stage 9: Pau-Luchon. 196.5 kilometres

Stage 10: Luchon-Plateau de Boudin. 170 kilometres

Stage 11: Tarascon sur Ariège-Le Cap D’Arp. 221 kilometres

Repos

Stage 12: Frontignan La Peyrade-Daumier. 196 kilometres

Stage 13: Valadon-Grenoble. 186.5 kilometres

Stage 14: Grenoble-L’Alpe D’Huez. 189 kilometres

Stage 15: Vizille-Gilbertville. 204 kilometres

Stage 16: Gilbertville-Aix-les-Bains. 149 kilometres

Stage 17: Aix-les-Bains-Neuchâtel. 218.5 kilometres

Stage 18: La Chaux de Fonds-Lautrec. 242 kilometres

Repos: Transfer by road and rail. Lautrec-Disneyland-Paris

Stage 19: Disneyland Paris, Individual Time Trial: 63 kilometres

Stage 20: Disneyland-Paris. 149.5 kilometres

Day 27. Monday

October: Paris. The launch of next year’s Tour de France

Acknowledgements

Afterword

Fen

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

Chapter Forty-Two

Chapter Forty-Three

Chapter Forty-Four

Chapter Forty-Five

Chapter Forty-Six

Chapter Forty-Seven

Chapter Forty-Eight

Chapter Forty-Nine

Chapter Fifty

Epilogue

Afterword

Pip

Dedication

Epigraph

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

Acknowledgements

Afterword

Read on for an extract of Rumours

About the Author

Acclaim for Freya

Also by Freya North

About the Publisher

For Emma O’Reilly

Honest and true.

And a great friend.

‘I know that your mother ran off with a cowboy from Denver,’ Django McCabe reasoned with his niece, ‘but you chasing through France after a bunch of boys on bikes – well, isn’t that taking the family tradition to new extremes?’

Cat McCabe, sunbathing, eyes closed, in her uncle’s Derbyshire garden, smiled.

It feels funny smiling with closed eyes; like you can’t really do both.

So she opened her eyes, stretched leisurely, sat up cross-legged, and picked blades of grass from her body, fingering the satisfying striations they had left on her skin.