Life in the Runaway Lane by Eve Rockett

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Synopsis

"I hung from the telephone pole beside our house by one hand. I was seven years old. When I was twenty-seven I sat in a smoky bar with a jug of beer and couldn't climb four flights of stairs. What happened to that little girl?"

For Eve Rockett, "the outdoors was always something that you came in from." As she moved through life, she noticed her sense of adventure, and with it her confidence, slowly diminishing. The remedy? To face her biggest fear: an Outward Bound adventure. Rockett's journey takes her from tentatively crawling up a rocky cliff to leading a raft through white water rapids; from crying with frustration, exhaustion and her body's betrayal to realizing her strength and savouring her victories.

Overcoming this first fear set Rockett on a trail of moving, inspiring--and sometimes hilarious--adventures including: joining an army boot camp; throwing herself into the lion's den of stand-up comedy; and surprising her bewildered husband with a few sexual trysts--gone wrong. Determined not to give up on herself, Rockett approaches each challenge with humour, sensitivity and courage. In the end, what she discovers is the spirit of that little girl-daring, confident and free.

Biography

Eve Rockett is a Vancouver-based journalist. She writes for numerous magazines including Chatelaine.