Sarah Donohue: The World Is Never Enough

by Donohue Sarah

Overview

This is the action packed story of a female racing driver and stuntwoman who lives life on the edge and enjoys every extreme moment of it… A thrill-seeker by day and glamorous showgirl by night, Sarah Donohue believes in living out her dreams and living life to the full bringing colour and laughter to the lives of everyone around her.

Even after a high-speed powerboat crash putting her on a life-support machine, Sarah didn’t let dying for four minutes or a face held together by titanium plates dampen her spirits. The crash was documented as one of the worst crashes seen in powerboat racings history yet Sarah returned back to racing with BBC’s ‘999’ and ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not’ hiring her as the stuntwoman to re-enact her own near fatal experience. Soon after she became the European powerboat champion. Her journey of triumph over adversity is both inspiring and extreme.

This story of life will take the reader through a roller coaster of emotions as Sarah experiences the highest of highs on podium tops to the lowest of lows as she suffers jealous cyber abusers. The funny stories recalled as a forces pinup and staunch supporter of the military through to the not so funny story of Sarah enduring Donald Trump, the now president of the United States of America and his legal team for almost four years.

This feisty girl from Yorkshire loves life and puts as much into it as she can whilst taking anything it throws back at her remaining positive and up beat. This shows that even the impossible can be made possible with the right attitude no matter who you are or where you come from. A motivational, funny and inspirational book showing one woman’s journey on taking on any challenge head to head and her world-renowned success in the male dominated sport of offshore powerboat racing. Even death becomes her.

 

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781999983710
Publisher:	Superbody ltd
Publication date:	06/12/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Sarah was born in Yorkshire in a small village called Delph on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. She has very strong family ties and has a loving mother and father and three brothers whom she is very close to. She studied at Saddleworth School and went on to Oldham Tech, Southport Tech and Manchester University where she studied Fashion&Textiles. Sarah also attended Oldham Theatre Workshop during most of her younger and teenage life and featured in many stage productions and later went into television. Known industry-wide as the real life Lara Croft, Sarah Donohue is the international offshore powerboat multi-champion that literally lives life on the edge. The TV presenter, journalist, world fitness champion and motivational speaker has suffered a number of serious injuries due to her 'no holds barred' lifestyle and she even died for four minutes after a near fatal racing crash, which Sarah saw as only a minor setback! She continues to compete in one of the world's most dangerous sports, powerboat racing, and was given the nickname 'The Queen of the Seas' by the British Armed Forces during her time as a forces pin-up. In 2018 she was chosen as the Ambassador for the Asia Race Series and is a regular at events in Hong Kong working alongside owner Martin Lai her former team mate. As well as winning a series of awards, including the APBA One-Design National Powerboat title in the USA and the European Championships, Sarah was also recruited as the lead stunt double in Bond movie, The World is Not Enough. Sarah was also asked to double for Angelina Jolie in Hollywood blockbuster The Tourist as well as having doubled for other 'A' listers such as Pamela Anderson and has worked with legends such as Robert Carlyle, Pierce Brosnan and John Cleese to name just a few. She also holds the Lady of the Lake speed record title achieved on Lake Windermere and is officially the longest standing and most successful female powerboat racer in the world and was nominated as a 'Woman of Achievement' at the world famous ladies luncheon 'Woman of the Year' in London in 2014. When on dry land, Sarah is a fitness champion and has won the World Fitness title twice during four day long events in the USA which saw her compete in track and field, an assault course and bikini stage rounds. Following a powerboat accident in 2000 in Italy and despite the fact that her face was so damaged that she couldn't eat solids for six months, Sarah began training with Parachute Regiment PTI Mark Jarvis, her best friend and the former official trainer for One Direction, Keira Knightly and Christian Slater and it was during rehabilitation Mark discovered her talent as a strength and endurance athlete. Sarah has also had a long and glittering presenting career, hosting a series of her own extreme sports shows travelling the world for Granada Sky Broadcasting's Men and Motors Channel. Sarah's other roles include co-presenting H2O with Nick Knowles and Simon Vigar (now royal correspondent for CH5 News), appearing on They Think It's All Over with Jonathan Ross, presenting a TV show at Daytona Raceway, a fitness expert on the Trisha Goddard Show and presenting the British Nautical Awards with Nigel Mansell, to name just a few. Several channels have made documentaries about Sarah's life including BBC1's 999, Channel 4, and Americas 'Ripley's believe it or Not.' She was also featured in America's National Enquirer. She continues to race and will racing across the USA for Reindl Powerboats based out of Las Vegas.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – 007, The world’s most famous number ‘I couldn’t have been more Northern if I’d crammed an Eccles cake into my gob.’

Chapter 2 – Silk stockings and Soho nights ‘Hair flicking, high kicking, back bending.’

Chapter 3 - Moulin Rouge to the dog house ‘I almost expected a fairy to sail down a zip wire.’

Chapter 4 – Country girl to racer girl ‘It’s like standing in a cold shower and ripping up £50 notes.’

Chapter 5 – Lights, Camera, Action ‘Get rolling. I have the first interview.’

Chapter 6  - Life after death ‘It’s starting to look like a bloody morgue in here.’

Chapter 7 - Black ops to podium tops ‘Who are you lot, Milk Tray delivery?’

Chapter 8 – Taking the title ‘The pits were buzzing with race crews, journalists and photographers’

Chapter 9 - Portugal  - The second time I nearly died ‘When did you realise I had no steering?’

Chapter 10 - Oh to dance with ZZ Top ‘Fuck off. No fucking way.’

Chapter 11 - What… This much fun with my clothes on? ‘Like a cheap German prostitute - packed full of seamen.’

Chapter 12 - Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Flunkie  ‘I deeply inhaled the pleasure of exhaust fumes.’

Chapter 13 – Top Trumps ‘It’s all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits.’

Chapter 14 – Appearances can be deceiving - ‘One of the most vitriolic abusers was married to a Met police officer.’

Chapter 15 – My life, love and happiness ‘Life just didn’t get better than this.’

 

Chapter 14 – Appearances can be deceiving

‘One of the most vitriolic abusers was married to a met police officer.’

I was being taken to court by one of the world’s most powerful men. Yet my issues with Donald Trump’s corporation were irrelevances compared to a group of keyboard warriors getting together on social media.

Social media has flattened hierarchy and empowered faceless people to offer opinion in debates. This is amazing and truly a step forward for the littler person to have a voice. Yet social media can also be used to form alliances far stronger than one powerful entity - people using numbers to push an agenda, this truly is democratic yet it can be abused. People may jump on bandwagons just to feel part of something they don’t really understand or join just because their social media friends do. In certain circumstances, people band together not to discuss or debate but to form kangaroo courts to publicly bully and destroy people whether they deserve it or not

When we see a victim of bullying, it’s easy to see them having a weakness of sorts; someone easily manipulated who can easily be dominated. We may think of children or teenagers or people who stand out from the crowd - the low achievers, those with body issues, the poor, the nerdy geek or others with poor social skills. Someone who stands out from the crowd for whatever reason but someone whom others deem to have a personality ‘flaw’.

Editorial Reviews

I first met Sarah back in 1999, as the first journalist to interview her after she'd recovered from a near fatal powerboat accident. Thankfully, not only did Sarah recover, but this feisty, charming, intelligent and crusading woman proved herself to be a vital force on so many fronts. Working hard and taking risks are clearly embedded in her DNA, and the long standing list of her achievements speak for themselves.

Angela Epstein: freelance journalist and broadcaster

"This is the story of an extraordinary woman who combined glamour and fearless determination, who nearly died from extreme sport or laughter on many occasions and certainly has lived a life less ordinary. To me she's affectionately the Powerbat, to you she's the feistiest Bond girl ever, wrecking million pound boats for fun" Nick Knowles, TV Presenter

"Compelling, funny and fast paced" - Joe Hart, England goalkeeper

"Sarah and I have had very parallel lives... Living the dream of fast boats fast lives in fast places of the world, we have both had great successes in our chosen way of life, but equally both had near fatal accidents and come back from the dead and seen our lives pass in front of us. This is one heck of a life story from a very spunky lady and once you start this read I promise you won't put it down..."

Gina Campbell. Q.S.O, Former World Water Speed Record Holder.

"Sarah Donohue - a true Rock 'n' Rolla" Mark Time best selling author

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