Having had a long career in nursing and cared for a family and step family, recently widowed and lonely, Alice had withdrawn to hide away in a sleepy Norfolk seaside village.

However, hurtling towards 50, she was itching for adventure and when a charismatic man bounded into her world she rushed headlong into a new life with him.

A woman, a narrowboat, a grumpy cat and a new relationship - what could possibly go wrong?

In Reflections from a Narrowboat, Alice White muses on events extracted from the blogs she wrote while on her adventure.

These memoirs offer a sometimes funny, sometimes moving and always interesting insight into the impressive strength of

a woman when negotiating some of the challenges of narrowboating, nature, life and relationships.