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Author
Publisher
Saraband
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
'I?m Rose. John and I shared nearly eight years of our lives together. For the last three years cancer anchored us together. This is our story, of how two ordinary people live with the diagnosis, the check-ups, the disappointments, the relief, the questions, the answers, the operations, the recovery, the emergencies, the denial, the acceptance, the anger, the pain, the loss, the love, the fear, the frustration and the happiness.' Shortly before he...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
This is one family's poignant story of coping with the symptoms, the diagnosis and the effects of Huntington's Disease. The book presents the struggles and strengths of the whole family when one member loses their future to a terminal illness.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
With the emotional impact of }The Last Act Of Love{, this is a poignant memoir from a mother to her son. One of hope, it is the true story of Louis's traumatic birth and ensuing developmental difficulties, together with Alison's experience and enduring maternal love for him.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth, with the heady exhilarations and freedoms of lost innocence, as well as the fears of the coming war.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Millie hardly knew her aunt, and besides, she has her own career to think of. Young, pretty, full of confidence - or so she likes to pretend - she wants nothing to do with a dull spinster aunt whom her family refuses to talk about. But when she arrives at Flo's basement flat, Millie's interest is awakened.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
New pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Delia has made a living writing an acerbic advice column and a series of wildly successful modern household guides. As the book opens, she is barely 40 but has only a short time to live. The novel charts her preoccupation with two things: how to make provision for her husband and daughters - and how to make her peace with her past.
Author
Publisher
Usborne
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Izzy's family is under the spotlight when her dad comes out as Danielle, a trans woman. Izzy is terrified her family will be torn apart. Will she lose her dad? Will her parents break up? And what will people at school say? Izzy's always been shy, but now all eyes are on her. Can she face her fears, find her voice and stand up for what's right?
14) The black book
Author
Series
Black Book volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
How can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime? Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers...
Author
Publisher
Saraband
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
?A biting laugh-out-loud satire" (Louise Welsh) Digitally remastered with author revision, new edit & BONUS creative writing masterclass on creating a sense of place. Trisha, a lonely unsentimental boozer, unexpectedly inherits a home in the Highlands. She leaves her estranged husband, her insolent teenage son and her boring job. Having pictured a rural idyll, she finds rain, sheep, and kamikaze midges. And more rain.
Author
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
At the age of 3 Kit Philipson was abducted whilst on holiday with his family. He grew up adored by his adopted parents but as the woman he thought was his mother lay dying she told him her terrible secret and gave him the name of his real family. His search for the truth will see him question the morality of all those around him.
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
New pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Like the Jaggers, Raf Rafferty and his wife Delilah have lived their lives in the full glare of the media spotlight for 30 years. Now with three daughters, Delilah is planning her own birthday party, a night that will see the good and the great from the worlds of TV and theatre descending on their gorgeous home.
Author
Publisher
Publishers Group UK [distributor]
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Description
'Stop Walking on Eggshells' is a self-help guide for family and friends of individuals with borderline personality disorder, a condition twice as common as schizophrenia and more common than Alzheimer's disease.
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