This book is not just about someone being a hero – most of us know he has won the Tour de France more times than anyone else, and the Tour is widely seen as the toughest sporting event in the world.
There are lessons here for everyone – he came from a very poor background with a single mum and a useless absent father but he applied himself to something and still made it. Then he had to face cancer and realised that his achievement in sport was not as important as staying alive, working with his mother and friends. Somehow the way it’s written doesn’t make the reader think “well that’s great but he’s above us ordinary people” – Millions have read the book and seen lessons to give them strength to face their own challenges.
SG
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