Stepfamilies are currently the fastest growing family type in the UK, with current estimates suggesting that 1 in 10 of all families are now stepfamilies. Yet despite the ever-growing number of stepfamilies, there remains a dearth of information & support for them.

How to be a Happy Stepmum provides the first step in this support by guiding stepmothers through the pitfalls of adapting to stepfamily life; firstly by identifying what type of stepmother they are & then by addressing each of the recognised factors related to becoming a successful & happy stepmother.

Based on sound research & written by an expert in the field, this book is essential reading for all stepmums.



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Being a beauty editor is a bit like being a doctor: wherever you go people are always asking ' What should I do about this patch of dry skin?'; ' What's the fashionable eyebrow shape?'; ' Do the latest anti-ageing creams really work?' But Baird-Murray has turned this to her advantage to write the first book that gives you the inside track: the knowledge that only models & the best connected people in the industry can hope to have. Packed with practical information, the book tells you how to get the hairstyle you want, & the colour; explains which shampoos & hair treatments work & why; discusses skin care routines & facials (including fillers & fixers); key make-up tips from the best make-up consultants in the world, right down to how to choose the right perfume. If you've ever wanted to look just a little bit better this is the book for you! ...

Making Slough Happy is made by award-winning independent production company Optomen, with prime-time programming on BBC2, transmitting in November 2005.

One of the boldest social experiments ever undertaken, this unique television event brings happiness experts from all fields & gives them just four months to make the town of Slough happy.

A fact: Although genes & upbringing influence about 50% of our happiness, circumstances (income, living environment) only affects 10%. The remaining 40% is accounted for by our outlook on life, something we all have the power to change for the better.

A simple happiness exercise: keep a diary & once a week write in it things for which you are thankful over the past week. Thats it. This is a simple but highly effective technique people who did it over 6 weeks reported a significant increase in their sense of happiness & satisfaction.

Published against the series, How to be Happy combines the very latest research with advice & exercises from the experts to give you the truth about happiness & practical ways to increase your own happiness"a.







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To their neighbours in suburban Holt, New York, the Winters family has it all: a grand home, a trio of radiant daughters & a sense of security in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the Winters family are exposed.

Fifteen years later, Caroline, now a New Orleans cocktail waitress, sees a photograph of a woman in People Magazine. Convinced that it is Ellie all grown up, Caroline embarks on a search for her missing sister. As she travels through the New Mexico desert, the mountains of Colorado, & the smoky underworld of Montana, she devotes herself to salvaging her broken family.

How To Be Lost is a spellbinding novel about sisters, family secrets
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You home should be somewhere you look forward to spending time. It should be a haven from the stresses of the world. You should be proud to have your freinds round for dinner & they should leave impressed by your comfortable, clean, homely home.
Nowadays, we don't all have the time or energy to make the most of our homes. But with a little help from Anthea, the queen of clean, you too can have a beautiful, clean & comfortable home to be truly proud of. With tips on everything from decluttering to dry cleaning, storage solutions to spring cleaning, dinner parties to brunches, this is an indispensible guide. There are simple lessons on each aspect of home making from cleaning to ironing to washing to tidying as well as top tips on entertaining. You wil learn to entertain in style, with little effort & cost.
Whether you're a housewife, or a young professional or student just setting up home, the Perfect Housewife has helpful hints to get you organised. You can save time & energy & turn your house into a home with Anthea Turner!

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' Feeling the way I do now, it's not a feeling I ever want to have again.' Andrew Flintoff speaks for a nation.

The Ashes,

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