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Four pictures depicting Jennifer Ratcliffe the author of Mess In A Boat. First: In a yellow dingy sits a woman laughing in a yellow helmet and red life jacket about to go white-water rafting. Two: A black and white portrait photo of a white chubby cheeked woman with big curly hair half smiling toward the camera. Three: A curly haired woman in shorts stands on top of a narrowboats roof at dusk looking away from camera. Three: A curly haired woman in a hat grins from a tent doorway, which perches on the edge of a sea cliff.Four pictures depicting Jennifer Ratcliffe the author of Mess In A Boat. First: In a yellow dingy sits a woman laughing in a yellow helmet and red life jacket about to go white-water rafting. Two: A black and white portrait photo of a white chubby cheeked woman with big curly hair half smiling toward the camera. Three: A curly haired woman in shorts stands on top of a narrowboats roof at dusk looking away from camera. Three: A curly haired woman in a hat grins from a tent doorway, which perches on the edge of a sea cliff.
Four pictures depicting Jennifer Ratcliffe the author of Mess In A Boat. First: In a yellow dingy sits a woman laughing in a yellow helmet and red life jacket about to go white-water rafting. Two: A black and white portrait photo of a white chubby cheeked woman with big curly hair half smiling toward the camera. Three: A curly haired woman in shorts stands on top of a narrowboats roof at dusk looking away from camera. Three: A curly haired woman in a hat grins from a tent doorway, which perches on the edge of a sea cliff.Four pictures depicting Jennifer Ratcliffe the author of Mess In A Boat. First: In a yellow dingy sits a woman laughing in a yellow helmet and red life jacket about to go white-water rafting. Two: A black and white portrait photo of a white chubby cheeked woman with big curly hair half smiling toward the camera. Three: A curly haired woman in shorts stands on top of a narrowboats roof at dusk looking away from camera. Three: A curly haired woman in a hat grins from a tent doorway, which perches on the edge of a sea cliff.
Left Top: Me white water rafting on a writing commission in Montenegro. Left Bottom: Me stood on top of my narrowboat nomadic home in Cheshire. Right Top: A portrait of myself looking presentable. Right Bottom: Poking out of the tent on the isle of Skye moments after being eye to eye with a white-tailed eagle!

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