Cat (Paperback)

A budding sports journalist obsessed with cycling, she's just been offered the chance of a lifetime--covering the Tour de France for the Guardian. But she's a little on the fragile side, having been dumped by her boyfriend of five years, and thus lost loads of weight and self-confidence. How will this English version of Ally McBeal survive the testosterone-fuelled cycling race? Will she succumb to the muscular thighs and obvious bulges of the sexy cyclists--and they to her slim English gorgeousness? How will she cope as one of only 12 women in the thousand-strong press corps? Will her Ex show up? Will he want her back? Does she want him back? And what about Ben York--team doctor for Megapac, the American outsiders? He seems to be flirting with her, and there's definitely Chemistry. But if he's after Cat, why was he looking deep into the eyes of Monique, the stunning Coca Cola podium girl? And, when the three gruelling weeks are over, will Cat get the features editorship she craves at Maillot magazine?

Lots of sex, angst, female bonding, cycling and lycra, plus a realistic smattering of wee and dysentery from the acclaimed author of Sally,Chloe and Polly. --Lisa Gee --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review
Meet Cat (Catriona) McCabe, aspiring young sports journalist with a passion for, of all things, cycling. And now Cat, while not exactly over-endowed in the self-confidence department, has nonetheless managed to get a national newspaper to send her to cover the Tour de France. North's devoted legions of female fans, hooked by the madcap romantic adventures of her previous heroines (each gave her name as a book title: Sally, Chloe and Polly) might be forgiven for a collective sigh and a yawn at the thought of lots of men with shaved legs pedalling up hill and down dale for three weeks, but North is very clear on the attractions - and erotic potential - of such a spectacle. She does not keep the book's point of view exclusively with her young heroine. We also get to know the feelings and motivations of the other major players in Cat's Tour de France drama - the handsome, arrogant Fabian Ducasse, as much a heart-throb in the cycling world as any footballer or rock star to his fans; American Luca Jones with the team which has flown the Atlantic to challenge the French on their own soil; Ben York, the Americans' quiet and clever sports doctor. So can Cat prove herself as a journalist and keep her heart intact as she follows the 'peloton' through France and gets involved in its gripping dramas and colourful cast of characters? While readers may be forgiven for occasional exasperation at Cat's rather wet brand of self-absorbed diffidence, they will not find these inner misgiving slow down the plot: her erotic and romantic escapades hurtle along at the pace of one of the downhill stretches of the Tour. Along the way North's readers can learn more about the workings of a world-class cycle race than they perhaps ever thought they would need to know: the significance of the yellow, green and spotted jerseys, the commercial shenanigans of the corporate sponsors, the drugs, the groupies and the real reason why the cyclists shave their legs. And does the charmingly naive, impressionable but determined Cat (in literary genealogy, a sort of Bridget Jones's younger sister) find true happiness at the end of the 4000 kilometre slog? Let's just say that by this, her fourth book, North knows how to keep her readers happy. (Kirkus UK)

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