Love With a Chance of Drowning, Torre DeRoche
Love With a Chance of Drowning, Torre DeRoche
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Love With a Chance of Drowning
A Memoir

Author: Torre DeRoche

Narrator: Candice Moll

Unabridged: 11 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2013

Synopsis

New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong?City girl Torre DeRoche isn’t looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He’s just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that’s as exhilarating as it is terrifying.This sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and always poignant memoir is set against a backdrop of the world’s most beautiful and remote destinations. Equal parts love story and travel memoir, Love with a Chance of Drowning is witty, charming, and proof positive that there are some risks worth taking.“A funny, irresistibly offbeat tale about the risks and rewards of living, and loving, with an open heart.” —Kirkus Reviews

About Torre DeRoche

Torre DeRoche is an Australian native and self-proclaimed fearful adventurer. When she’s not at home in Melbourne, Australia, DeRoche is at large in the world, exploring, writing, painting pictures, and snapping photos as she faces her fears one terrified step at a time. Stories of her adventures may be found at www.fearfuladventurer.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mrs Giggles on January 06, 2014

Now, the travel memoir isn't my first choice of reading material, especially those that feature women going abroad to discover love and enlightenment, which they then proceed to share with us, along with a photo of their fresh-faced perkiness in a cozy embrace with that hot guy they snagged on their......more

Goodreads review by Grady on January 17, 2012

A Love Story Superlatively Written SWEPT: LOVE WITH A SENSE OF DROWNING is a little work of magic. Torre Deroche writes likes she was born to it. Contrary to some press clippings, this story is not a travelogue suffused with emotion. Yes, indeed much of the book takes place on an adventure of sailing......more

Goodreads review by Alex on June 08, 2013

I am afraid of aeroplanes, so if I met a man who proposed flying around the world in a small plane together, and I then spent the entire journey either freaking out, vomiting, complaining or asleep (which are the only activities that Torre engages in over the thousands of miles of Pacific sailing sh......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on November 05, 2011

This book -- a memoir about a one-night stand turned worldwide sailing expedition between lovers (a charming Argentinian and a woman who is terrified of the ocean) -- is absolutely BRILLIANT! If I could give it 10 stars out of 5, I would. I loved every single page -- Torre's writing is hilarious, be......more

Goodreads review by Riley on March 03, 2013

Book Review for Love with a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche: Basic Blurb: Love can make a person do crazy things . . . A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find adrift in the middle of the stormy Pacific aboard a leaky sailboat – total cr......more

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