Meet Kim a middle aged hack ripe for a mid life crisis Meet Kate his feisty colleague half his age And meet the Marathon des Sables not just the world s toughest footrace but also the burning furnace where two journalists fall in love Kim is married and in a dead end job on a Red Top newspaper He s always dreamed of running the Marathon des Sables Kate hurls down the gauntlet and Kim can t help but pick it up NP Based on the events of the 2012 Marathon des Sables this is a story about finding love in the searing crucible of the Sahara The Woman Who Was the Desert DreamI am a journalist and a writer of love stories. I am currently embroiled in an epic series of love stories which with luck will comprise at least 12 novels Two of these novels are already out The Well Tempered Clavier and The Woman Who Made Men Cry with another two due to be published by Thames River Press later this year The next one in the series will be The Woman Who Knew What She Wanted out in May. The premise of these love stories is quite simple The hero or perhaps anti hero is a journalist called Kim He is a man in his mid forties who is looking back at the various loves of his life Each of his past loves has her own bitter sweet tale for like all stand out love affairs they have a very great tendency to turn out b I am a journalist and a writer of love stories. I am currently embroiled in an epic series of love stories which with luck will comprise at least 12 novels Two of these novels are already out The Well Tempered Clavier and The Woman Who Made Men Cry with another two due to be published by Thames River Press later this year The next one in the series will be The Woman Who Knew What She Wanted out in May. The premise of these love stories is quite simple The hero or perhaps anti hero is a journalist called Kim He is a man in his mid forties who is looking back at the various loves of his life Each of his past loves has her own bitter sweet tale for like all stand out love affairs they have a very great tendency to turn out badly. I ve been a journalist for over 20 years including stints as the New York Correspondent and Political Correspondent of The Sun I ve also written for The Wall Street Journal the Daily Mail the Express The Mirror and the Scotsman. For the past five years I ve been an editorial consultant with a number of newspaper groups including Media 24 in South Africa and DC Thomson in Scotland This media coaching has formed the basis for my first non fiction book Red Top which is also due out later this year. Apart from the love stories I have written two other mainstream novels Lord Lucan My Story 2009 and Mr Two Bomb 2010 as well as two satires Dave Cameron s Schooldays 2010 and Simon Cowell The Sex Factor 2011 site_link Interesting book I liked it It is long like a marathon and I now know that I ll most likely never run the marathon des sables The Woman Who Was the Desert Dream