Makin a Mackem is a riveting and emotional memoir which charts Julie's three-day run across the north of England from Cumbria to Tyneside, and the way it becomes both an ancestral pilgrimage and a journey of self-discovery. Reflecting on her own family background, growing up in the North East, Julie considers running as her method of personal survival, and discovers how the modern global running movement actually started in the North East, with...