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Author
Publisher
Tinder Press
Pub. Date
2023
Description
When Anna and David receive a phone call late one evening, their lives are upturned. Within minutes, they are travelling to the west coast of Scotland, preparing to care for two young sisters, tragically and suddenly orphaned. It's a beautiful place, the heather is in bloom, the birds wheel above the waves, the deer graze peacefully in the distance. But the large granite house is no longer a home for the girls, and Anna knows she can never take the...
Author
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Motherhood brings a dramatic shift that affects all areas of our lives, from our bodies to our relationships and careers. And yet even though we expect life to be upended by the arrival of a new baby, many mothers struggle to reconcile their new identity with how they were before. Enriched with discoveries from biology, psychology and social science, 'The Motherhood Complex' is a journey to the heart of what it means to become a mother. Melissa Hogenboom...
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Croydon fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family. It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. And he is the only person she knows in this hot, dazzling, confusing city, where the job...
Author
Publisher
Robinson
Pub. Date
2022
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Parenting and caring for a child who is struggling to cope can be painful and stressful, and can make it very hard to enjoy life yourself. Feelings of blame, guilt, sorrow, despair, fear and frustration may be swirling around alongside a desperate desire to cure their pain. From when our children are babies, we know we would do almost anything to protect them from pain and suffering. But often, we can't. For countless parents and children there are...
Author
Publisher
Mudlark
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Craig Bromfield was just 13 years old when Brian Clough, on a whim, took him and his older brother Aaron in. They came from Southwick, a depressed area of Sunderland, where they lived with their abusive stepfather, and from where they longed to escape. After initially meeting Clough while out begging for money, Clough later invited the brothers to stay at his house. From there a relationship formed which would see Craig living with the Cloughs for...
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2022
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In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and her determination - grounded in the traditions of Nigerian parenting - to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Living in Brixton and awaiting the return of her husband and young son from Nigeria, Obiajulu Ejiofor received shattering news. There had been a fatal car crash, and one of them was dead. In 'Where the Children Take Us',...