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FREYA NORTH

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Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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First published in Great Britain by

William Heinemann 1999

Afterword © Freya North 2012

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Source ISBN: 9780007462230

Ebook Edition © June 2012 ISBN: 9780007462247

Version: 2017-11-28

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

Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

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

About the Author

Acclaim for Freya

Also by Freya North

About the Publisher

CAT McCABE AND THE TOUR DE FRANCE

‘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.