In Joe & Kate Keller's family garden an apple tree
- a memorial to their son Larry lost in the Second World War
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Claire Richards young fit & with a figure to die for reached the dizzying heights of fame in the hit band Steps when she was only twenty. When she left & Steps split shortly after the world was shocked by the news. Now writing with incredible honesty Claire tells her story from her teenage music career to her big break with Steps. She reveals that while in the band she faced harsh pressure to stay thin & starved herself for years. Feeling broken by the experience she finally left & sank into a pit of depression gaining huge amounts of weight & losing all self-esteem. Believing her career was over she also had to cope with a painful split from her Steps dancer husb&. Thankfully finding love with her now husband Reece got her back on track. He didnt care about her size; he just wanted Claire. & after seeing her weight go up & down for years Claire has refused to diet any more. Happily married with two kids shes finally comfortable in her own skin on stage & screen. In this book with humour grace & sincerity she shares her journey to her happy ending. ...

Claire Richards is loved by women everywhere for her warm & genuine personality. Now she writes honestly about her life taking us from the bullied schoolgirl who dreamed of peforming at Wembley to finding stardom with Steps. She reveals the secrets of the music industry & what its really like to be in a band at the top of their career from the unhealthy pressure to stay thin to the backstage rows. She describes how the stress of her affair caused her to starve herself & explains why she & fellow bandmate H controversially resigned. Claire also opens us about why her first marriage to Steps dancer Mark didnt last her dramatic weight gain & years of yo-yo dieting as she battled low self-esteem & how she found happiness with second husband Reece & their two children Charlie & Daisy. & she takes us behind the scenes of the Steps reunion tour as old issues rose to the surface. Entertaining touching & funny this is sure to appeal to Claires many fans. ...

Kim Noble is an accomplished artist whose work has been exhibited around the world. She is a mother with a 13-year-old daughter. She is a bubbly & vivacious woman. To meet her you wouldnt think anything was wrong. But when Kim was younger than five years old her personality splintered & fractured. In 1995 she was finally diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) which has been described as a creative way to cope with unbearable pain. Now her body plays host to more than 20 different personalities or alters. There are women & men adults & children; there is a scared little boy who speaks only Latin an elective mute a gay man & an anorexic teenager. Some alters age with her body; others are stuck in time. ALL OF ME takes the reader through the extraordinary world of a woman for whom the very nature of reality is different. It will tell of her terrifying battles to understand her own mind; of her desperate struggle against all odds to win back the child she loved; & of her courage & commitment in trying to make sense of her life. It is by turns shocking inspiring sometimes funny & deeply moving. ...

Welcome to Chestnut Hill the boarding school where every girls favourite subject is riding. Malorys thrilled to be invited to try out for a top riding team. But thats before she learns that Caleb the boy shes liked all year is competing for a place too. Will Malory be able to keep her focus? More titles available: TE NEW CLASS (9781407130750) MAKING STRIDES (9781407130767) HEART OF GOLD (9781407130774) PLAYING FOR KEEPS (9781407130781) TEAM SPIRIT (9781407130798) CHASING DREAMS (9781407130811) A TIME TO REMEMBER (9781407130828). ...

When Lady Slane was young she nurtured a secret burning ambition: to become an artist. She became instead the dutiful wife of a great statesman & mother to six children. In her widowhood she finally defies her family. Her children all over sixty have planned for her to spend her remaining days quietly as a paying guest of each of them in turn. Much to their dismay Lady Slane rents a small house in Hampstead & chooses to live independently free from her past. She revels in her new-found freedom living the life she forfeited seventy years earlier to the conventions of a Victorian marriage & attracts an odd assortment of companions. Among them is Mr Fitz George an eccentric millionaire who met her in India when she was very young & very lovely?.?.?. First published in 1931 All Passion Spent is the fictional companion to her friend Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. ...

The death of a pet is always a heart wrenching event. But in ALL PETS GO TO HEAVEN Sylvia Browne uses her special psychic gift to provide comfort for those grieving over the loss of a beloved animal by showing how pets continue to be with us even after their deaths. Sylvia uses four decades' worth of research & true stories from her extraordinary career to reveal the psychic abilities of cats dogs horses & other creatures that have shared our homes & our hearts. She describes the unique personalities quirks habits & emotions that provide them with a soul. She explains how animals live on beyond the grave & gives readers a unique peek into heartwarming tales of never-ending loyalty heroic deeds & comic behaviour that show that pets are true human companions on both sides of life. ...

All Points North" is part-memoir & part-excursion. Charting the rugged & uneven terrain of a writers formative years
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It is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone & now the sun is abandoning the Lake Districts damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East. But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence & he innocently obliges. Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous out-of-season. ...

One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys fresh-faced & idealistic are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire & patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror & disillusionment of life in the trenches. ...