Sara Cox, Jo Whiley and Edith Bowman pretty much kept me company for my teenage years via their Radio One shows and now Sara Cox keeps me company via Radio Two (I know I’m getting old) so it wouldn’t be unfair to say I’ve grown up with her anecdotes and Bolton-ish ways. I don’t know if she qualifies as a national treasure yet but I imagine that’s only a matter of time, a consensus that could only been expedited by ‘Till the cows come home’ her memoir that details the first 20 years of her life. I’m guessing this is the first of many autobiography’s as she’s obviously still young but there’s only so much about living on a farm I care to read about. A life, even early, as a model should have been touched on a lot more but the most disappointing aspect was the ending. Abrupt is the only adjective suitable. However I didn’t feel as engrossed in this book as I’d hoped. I hate rating autobiographies as it feels incredibly personal to give a review to, but this book was just ok.

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As always Sara and her guests will be discussing a new book release. There will also be six Booker Prize gems to be discussed over the six weeks. Between The Covers Books List Series 7 – Book List New Releases Giovanna is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between these two cities, disoriented by the fact that, whether high or low, the city seems to offer no answer and no escape. Sindhu says: It's a book about a woman who discovers her mother's extremely colourful, and quite scary and horrifying, past - after her mother has died. The mother has left her a gun, and that's just the start of the story.Sara Cox's guests recommend books including ‘one of the best grief books ever written’. View Bittersweet tales of heartache and healing recommended by Peter Davison, Sarah Hadland, Cariad Lloyd and Sir Trevor McDonald I hope you’ve found this complete Between The Covers book list helpful. I’ll keep the list updated with every new series. Rate novels about family and friendship and get recommendations for your next great read. Help us complete the largest ever survey of English novels So I love this book a lot. I read it by chance. It's nonfiction, but it has a real fiction-y feel. I think, for me, the big thing about this book was, it's the transformation of a woman... for herself, and then later for her children. And as a mother, I feel like so much of what I try to be is a good example to my kid, or I don't want to lose my temper in front of my kid, at a micro level.

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At its core it is a book about justice, how we reach for justice, and, of course, what it means that children have an innate sense of what that justice is. They're born with it, and this describes that so beautifully and magically. Anyone familiar with the author's media persona will be aware of her wit, which is on full display in this vividly rendered tale of a warm, if not uncomplicated upbringing; in which a childhood on her father's farm is disrupted by divorce and marred by bullying, but culminates in triumph, as a career in modelling (although not at the highest level) starts her on the road to prominence. There's this fantastic moment where Mailer discovers that, at the hotel he's staying in, the balconies don't have rails. So in the middle of the night he decides he's going to climb onto this narrow balcony and walk out across this narrow ledge - go out through one window and come in through the other one. It's all about how we need to go to go right to the edge to feel truly alive, and it's so brilliantly written.As the daughter of a librarian Jen's love of books started from a very early age. Her reading obsession continued throughout her teenage years when she studied both English Language and English Literature at college. Oti says: “In this book you learn skills about understanding and forgiveness … how success is not how much money you make but how kind you are, how grateful you are.” The style is very odd, because he writes about himself in the third person –“And Norman walked out onto the balcony.” And you think, but wait a minute, you ARE Norman! I'm sure! Hang on!