A mother. A daughter. A family torn apart.

The heartbreaking true story of an unimaginable betrayal

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A mother. A daughter. A family torn apart

For the first six years of her life, Sarah Harris was a happy & popular

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When you figure out how love went wrong, you can figure out how to make it go right, what adjustments you may need to make & what sort of man you can be happy with.

In his inimitable sensitive style, J M Kearns shows you not just how to cope with failed love, but how to uncover the clues in a failed relationship that can help you find a better one. Better Love Next Time deals with the problems of relationships & the pain of break-ups, the constructive lessons that can be learned & the new course that can be charted.

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' It's time for women to start telling the world
- & each other
- why it's better to be single than sorry. Yes, it's great

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James Thurber was the most original, influential &, less we should forget, funniest American humorist of the last century. Writing & drawing cartoons for the New Yorker magazine from it's beginnings in the 1930s, he steadily shaped his own unique comic universe: a world governed by absurd logic where the trivial anxieties of everyday life slowly grind down its resigned citizens. Thurber's tales, alternately related in bemused deadpan & bewildered rage & are always excruciatingly funny & occasionally quietly disturbing too. This brand new selection, the first in over 50 years, reassembles his finest work for a new generation brought up on David Lynch & Jerry Seinfeld & features all his famous obsessions: the battle of the sexes, animals, travel, the delusional & certifiably insane. His 'casuals', as he liked to call his short pieces, drift between commercial fiction & surreal memoir. Spanning his whole career, this collection

Includes:: all his classic writings & cartoons, ' The Dream Life of Walter Mitty', ' The Catbird Seat', ' The Seal in the Bedroom', & half-forgotten gems that may be new even to fully qualified Thurber fans.

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The enormous respect & affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of honour & a passionate belief in the sovereignty of Parliament. Her convictions, she has said, are set in ' Yorkshire granite'. Born into a working class family in Dewsbury in 1929, there was little money, but Betty grew up in a home that radiated love & warmth. Betty popular & a talented dancer who went on, eventually, to become one of the celebrated Tiller Girls
- the full story of which she tells here for the first time. But by the age of 25 Betty's dreams of taking the West End by storm had crashed
- & her father's ambition of seeing her settled with a nice safe job had been abandoned. Undaunted, she won a national speaking award, stood for election to the local council & became a full-time worker for the Labour Party. Nothing would ever part Betty Boothroyd from politics again. In 1953 Betty began work at the House of Commons for Barbara Castle & Geoffrey de Freitas.

She speaks candidly about the devastation of losing two by-elections & the time she spent in America campaigning for JFK. Back in Britain, Betty landed a top job with millionaire Labour Minister Lord Harry Walston & the Yorkshire girl became part of the inner circle of the socialist elite, including Hugh Gaitskell & Roy Jenkins. She describes the elation she felt on becoming an MP at last in 1973, the huge debt she owes her mother for her support, & the full story behind her role in the struggle to save the Labour Party from the hard left. Betty Boothroyd's long political career reached its apogee in 1992 when she was appointed the first woman Speaker of the House of Commons with overwhelming support from both sides of the House. Her term of office coincided with John Major's attempts to defend his slim majority. Detailing many of the true stories behind the headlines, she writes of the sleaze scandals that beset the Major government, her feelings when Labour won their landslide election in 1997 & her strongly held views on the role of Parliament.

Finally, she tells why she decided to retire, her plans for the future &
- in retrospect
- what she feels about her decision to put public service above marriage.







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