From the moment fourteen-year-old Kathy decides to lose her virginity & reels in her prey, she is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March night, parked in a car on the outskirts of town with four boys she thought were her friends, she finds it. This is the story of a young girl
- the oldest daughter in a Catholic family of six children
- struggling to find her proper place in the world. Suddenly as 'the earth blossomed with men & boys', Kathy grasped her path towards power & freedom. But girls who break rules in small towns like hers are expected to pay a high price for their transgressions & Kathy soon learns the price. In this disturbing & powerful memoir Kathy reveals how she stepped out of that car forever altered, but not forever damaged, & how she learned to fight back after being labelled as a slut & ostracised in her own neighbourhood. Always aware that her ambitions were bigger & more complicated than the suburbs she grew up in, Kathy was determined to come through & to transform her fate.

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--Description--It's not easy for Chrysalis Moffat to tell the story of her life. The more closely she tries to set down the facts, the more she finds herself doubting them. Her father has been dead since she was ten; her mother has just succumbed to complications following plastic surgery. --Her bad brother Eddie returns to claim his inheritance & cunningly transforms the family house into the headquarters for a school of Tibetan Buddhism enlisting the help of trainee guru, Ralph. As the pair fleece credulous Californians of their cash, Chrysalis is drawn into a strange & compelling world: a realm of mind-blowing coincidences, obsessive gambling & mysterious siblings. --Sandra Newman has a marksman's skill for quick-fire dialogue, a passion for Byzantine plotting & a wicked sense of humour. But beneath the technical fireworks lies a brilliantly subtle understanding of human nature & our philosophical dilemmas. Is it Fate or Chance that dictates our lives? & who holds all the cards? ...

--Description--It's not easy for Chrysalis Moffat to tell the story of her life. The more closely she tries to set down the facts, the more she finds herself doubting them. Her father has been dead since she was ten; her mother has just succumbed to complications following plastic surgery. --Her bad brother Eddie returns to claim his inheritance & cunningly transforms the family house into the headquarters for a school of Tibetan Buddhism enlisting the help of trainee guru, Ralph. As the pair fleece credulous Californians of their cash, Chrysalis is drawn into a strange & compelling world: a realm of mind-blowing coincidences, obsessive gambling & mysterious siblings. --Sandra Newman has a marksman's skill for quick-fire dialogue, a passion for Byzantine plotting & a wicked sense of humour. But beneath the technical fireworks lies a brilliantly subtle understanding of human nature & our philosophical dilemmas. Is it Fate or Chance that dictates our lives? & who holds all the cards? ...

FEBRUARY 1806

The frigate carrying Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor off the shores of southern Africa. It is

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Fake boobs? Check. Gallons of fake tan? Check. Blokes & birds obsessed with their looks? Double check. Welcome to the fabulous world of The Only Way is Essex...

The Only Way is Essex is a brilliantly funny, massively addictive scripted reality TV programme based in Essex
- following the lives & loves of a group of sexy young socialites, where the men & women are tanned, toned & vajazzled to perfection.

This fully illustrated book will invite readers into the glamorous world of Essex where champagne, nail bars, nightclubs & tanning salons are a fundamental part of everybody




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' We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.' (Oscar Wilde)
'I tell you, we're in a blessed drain-pipe,
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