Eight Years Sailing Around the World with Three Kids: What It Really Takes to Escape the Rat Race.

A funny, honest guide to designing a life most people only daydream about.

In 2002, an ordinary bloke stood on a canal bridge in Leeds and felt his whole life tilt. Fifteen years later he wasn't watching boats. He was living at sea, with his wife and three kids.

This is the true story of an unremarkable family who did something remarkable: they sold up, moved onto a boat, and spent eight years sailing around the world.

Forget the Instagram filter of escapism and living the dream. Here the maintenance bills sit beside the turquoise lagoons, the marriage friction beside the once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and the money worries beside the bits nobody puts on Instagram or YouTube.

And it gets specific: which boat, what it really costs, how you school three kids at sea, and how you keep a marriage intact in a space smaller than most kitchens.

Most adventure stories end at the horizon. This one keeps going, into the harder business of who you are once the extraordinary is behind you and you have to come home and live.

Blunt, funny and unflinchingly honest, If You Want to Do It. Do It is the book that bloke on the bridge wishes he'd had before he cast off, for anyone who ever stared out of an office window and wondered whether there was more to life than the rat race. And for the far larger number who will never go, but can't stop wondering what it would cost.

It won't tell you what to do. It will tell you what it gives, and what it takes.

For readers of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Mark Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.

If You Want to Do It. Do it!

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