Tom Cottrell writes with a raw honesty about events and feelings that most of us try to suppress, much less express in public. His philosophy of goodness and indestructible optimism has been forged by hardship that began before his birth. This is a story of his life lived to the full. A life without the need for excuses. Not now. Not ever.
Professor Tim Noakes, University of Cape Town and Sports Science Institute of South Africa. Author of Lore of Running

Husbandhood, fatherhood, Southafricanism, success and failure, and which is which, a pinch of Gibran and a dash of Descartes… Tom turns his runner’s eyes to a startlingly wide world, and records it with unveiled pen.
Denis Beckett, Award-winning author, publisher, TV producer

Tom writes and runs in the heartbeat of every moment. The reader runs with him.
Dr. Dorian Haarhoff, former Professor of English Literature, University of Namibia. Writer, mentor, poet, storyteller. Author of The Writer’s Voice.