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The McCabe Girls Complete Collection: Cat, Fen, Pip, Home Truths
Freya North
Available for the first time as an ebook bundle, four novels following the fun and fortunes of the McCabe sisters - and of course the incomparable Uncle Django.Includes an extract from The Way Back HomeCAT is in for the ride of her life. Fleeing from a messy break-up, she lands a job reporting on the Tour de France and quickly realises it’s not all about bikes. With sex, drugs, large bulges and larger egos, as the spectacle unfolds, Cat’s life mirrors the peaks and perils of the race.FEN has waited ages for a man – and then two have turned up at once! Torn between a handsome publisher and a rugged landscape architect, Fen finds herself falling for both of them in a haze of sex, art and severe indecision.PIP makes a living clowning for children’s parties and hospital wards, so when she meets a sophisticated high-flying exec, it seems like they have nothing in common. But it seems that opposites often attract…In HOME TRUTHS, Freya North reunites her popular McCabe girls… because family matters. Doesn’t it?Raised by their loving and eccentric uncle Django, the McCabe sisters assume their mid-thirties would be a time of stability and happiness. But at Django's 75th birthday party secrets are revealed that throw the amily into chaos. Can heart and home ever be reconciled for the McCabes? After all, what does it mean if suddenly your sisters aren’t quite your sisters?Also includes an extract from THE WAY BACK HOME, which centres on Cat’s friend Oriana Taylor and her search for love and redemption.
FREYA NORTH: THE MCCABE GIRLS COMPLETE COLLECTION
Cat
Fen
Pip
Home Truths
Freya North
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Copyright (#u76a8b711-4cf6-5d72-8548-377b1e6839fa)
Cat (#uf6a46c9c-feb9-5a4c-a087-23d2a09ebce9)
Fen (#ue8576851-41f7-5340-a6a6-e960f7c2b5a3)
Pip (#u3ea28e08-27ad-5d67-8660-6e1673b5060a)
Home Truths (#u3623f4ea-a037-5c9e-8978-c70e79ea6471)
Keep Reading … (#ucbf182e1-7817-50e5-b817-fa3e0c6797ff)
About the Author (#u23021ed1-5bbb-5d13-bf69-c2a61f162fdd)
Also by Freya North (#u0a85f0d5-2f12-5065-a2bd-ea8cf6295027)
About the Publisher (#u8ab286c5-12ec-513b-9848-1fc74ec9c2a4)
FREYA NORTH
Cat
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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.
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
First published in Great Britain by
William Heinemann 1999
Copyright © Freya North 1999
Afterword © Freya North 2012
Freya North asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
Source ISBN: 9780007462230
Ebook Edition © June 2012 ISBN: 9780007462247
Version: 2017-11-27
FIRST EDITION
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
For Emma O’Reilly
Honest and true.
And a great friend.
Contents
Cover (#uf6a46c9c-feb9-5a4c-a087-23d2a09ebce9)
Copyright (#ua920dc24-d2a7-50b3-afb1-f8fed9276f74)
Dedication (#u1a86352e-6fb6-5f86-8c91-6b90981c3feb)
Map (#u1fee64a3-bc80-5c0e-9c21-2765386f7cf2)
Cat McCabe and the Tour De France (#u7cbbca40-9be3-5cfd-b4f0-03d43ef0d0f7)
Jules Le Grand and Team Systeme Vipere (#u42d765eb-508a-5c53-8f79-c427d0c421b0)
Rachel McEwen and Team Zucca Mv (#u49c9f3eb-fbcf-53a6-a18a-ad3046b71741)
Ben York and Team Megapac (#uff84f299-aa8b-5578-ad7b-2f8743ce491c)
Setting the Wheels in Motion (#u032b4f8e-c9df-53e0-bdca-afbb9bf4c5a4)
Prologue Time Trial: Delaunay Le Beau, Saturday 3 July (#uf765b607-6b80-55af-a10c-dc2739b2ff0f)
Stage 1: Delaunay Le Beau-Rouen. 195 kilometres (#uaf5aaba5-0f0d-59e9-a29a-f2a51306d549)
Stage 2: Rouen-Vuillard. 260 kilometres (#u71847c49-99fa-5c07-be5a-7b6417ab860f)
Stage 3: Vuillard-Plumelec. 225 kilometres (#u7dbd707b-e12d-549e-8262-be362ff4858d)
Stage 4: Plouay-Chardin. 248 kilometres (#u31a6415f-134a-528f-ac53-6e4b47ac575c)
Stage 5: Nantes-Pradier. 210 kilometres (#u38d2f647-bdaf-55db-bc37-e2175910ea52)
Stage 6: Pradier-Bordeaux. 215 kilometres (#u68185c81-db67-5a3b-ae9c-e593338bc49f)
Stage 7: Computaparc - Individual Time Trial. 54.5 kilometres (#u8d3af2ad-d2e2-537a-87ad-b36863f5dddb)
Stage 8: Sauternes-Pau. 162 kilometres (#u05edd8b3-154d-5890-84b2-66f1dfddd5e1)
Stage 9: Pau-Luchon. 196.5 kilometres (#uf1263412-3326-56c6-bad1-990410274e82)
Stage 10: Luchon-Plateau de Boudin. 170 kilometres (#u68149ded-9402-5773-8fab-014894059036)
Stage 11: Tarascon sur Ariège-Le Cap D’Arp. 221 kilometres (#uc05d1e33-657c-5deb-abfe-cbf5cd4e61c0)
Repos (#u25cd6121-90ac-599c-b0d8-5f4dd9cab511)
Stage 12: Frontignan La Peyrade-Daumier. 196 kilometres (#u56acb1df-fe58-5a87-93d2-77cb6483dd19)
Stage 13: Valadon-Grenoble. 186.5 kilometres (#u64047aca-9e3d-5be0-b0ab-84deaac849c6)
Stage 14: Grenoble-L’Alpe D’Huez. 189 kilometres (#uaecae3a1-d05e-5b6e-8256-c9f147862d33)
Stage 15: Vizille-Gilbertville. 204 kilometres (#u69337b95-4ed9-5e8a-be7a-7cdde72798e8)
Stage 16: Gilbertville-Aix-les-Bains. 149 kilometres (#ue427125b-478d-56e0-954a-cd4d0be6f9d4)
Stage 17: Aix-les-Bains-Neuchâtel. 218.5 kilometres (#u754ef0a8-a75f-5de2-af36-12ba0a36ee51)
Stage 18: La Chaux de Fonds-Lautrec. 242 kilometres (#uce92e6b7-13af-5c0d-993d-4076cf6fee2f)
Repos: Transfer by road and rail. Lautrec-Disneyland-Paris (#ue3d4072f-4c2c-5999-a99d-a1ea05df17b0)
Stage 19: Disneyland Paris, Individual Time Trial: 63 kilometres (#u5b296d38-9034-5977-9b69-2122fc1af73a)
Stage 20: Disneyland-Paris. 149.5 kilometres (#u3540e88c-a247-5286-a639-85de78cabd9e)
Day 27. Monday (#u9bf904f4-5ae7-53b2-8e1f-07e4afd2ae3e)
October: Paris. The launch of next year’s Tour de France (#u82749049-6fff-5b27-95bd-6901009da30f)
Acknowledgements (#uf154b344-38cc-5f1f-b362-37116ab0b1ad)
Afterword (#ud01beb66-abff-5d89-a7ae-7b2cc320ccf9)
Acclaim for Freya (#ud8151193-807f-5322-9ae5-fda46a81b3c9)
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.
It feels funny smiling with closed eyes; like you can’t really do both.
So she opened her eyes, stretched leisurely, sat up cross-legged, and picked blades of grass from her body, fingering the satisfying striations they had left on her skin.
‘Lashings of lycra!’ her elder sister Fen offered from her position under the pear tree.
‘Oily limbs a-plenty,’ connived her eldest sister Pip, suddenly cartwheeling into view.
Cat tried to look indignant but then grinned. ‘The Tour de France is the world’s most gruelling sporting event,’ she said defensively, hands on hips, to her audience. ‘It demands that its participants cycle 4,000 k in three weeks. At full speed. Up and over mountains most normal folk ski down. Day after day after day.’
‘And?’ said Django, rubbing his knees, bemoaning that the sun wasn’t doing for his arthritis what it did last year.
