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Bumps in the Road: A Memoir

Life and Adventure in Bike-Size Chunks

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Bumps in the Road: A Memoir

By: Maria McErlane
Narrated by: Maria McErlane
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Maria McErlane is best known for appearing in The Fast Show, Killing Eve, Eastenders, Fat Friends, HIGNFY, Holby City, as the voice of Eurotrash and her weekly contributions as agony aunt on the Graham Norton radio show. Her memoir details a warm and witty, sometimes difficult ride through life. For Maria, navigating life in all its glory has been accompanied by a steady stream of bicycles.

No rule book, just a love of the new and a passion for the open road.

Maria details a warm and witty, sometimes difficult ride through childhood, friendships, wealth, fame, reinvention, love and loss.

Each bike, each revolution, has contributed to her own evolution and the lessons she has learned along the way.

Bumps in the Road gives us the same honesty and humour Maria employs for the many listeners seeking advice in her thirteen years as an agony aunt with Graham Norton.

The wheel goes up and the wheel goes down. Happy or sad, life is full of joy, mishaps and annoying obstacles. It’s important to get back in the saddle, keep pedalling up that hill and freewheeling down the other side!

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Maria is a sane voice in sometimes a mad world. This book made me laugh and it gives the feeling that even when life is crazy we can look at it with humour and compassion. TBH I’d would listen to anything Maria wrote

Authentic funny and heart felt

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I've absolutely adored this beautifully told - both in writing and reading - biography. Funny and moving by turns, this is a truly wonderful and inspiring book.

Wonderful book!

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Started off listening to this audiobook whilst walking my dog. However one morning I was driving my daughter to work and it came on. Well after this I was banned from solo listening and we made it part of our routine on journeys each day. So good

Really enjoyable

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I really loved this book, I didn’t know much about Maria apart from radio 2. Maria has lead a fascinating life with some great anecdotes from 80s and 90s. She obviously has a lot of ‘famous people’ encounters but doesn’t brag about this which is really refreshing. It is a very heartwarming read/ listen!. It is well written and brilliantly voiced. Well done Maria!

Really enjoyable

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Moving, funny and beautifully read, Thanks Maria. Your honest account of grief brought back the unexpected loss of my beloved husband. Truthful and insightful

I loved it

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