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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=It's Worth a TrySugarless|author=Nicola GoodlandNicole M Avena|rating=45|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=This is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, ''ItThis isn's Worth t a Try'': ''I wanted to write this kind of diet book because when I was a young woman, ladies and gents told me that they suffered from abuse of some kind as children and only found the courage to talk about it as adults. Maybe this The last thing anyone needs is another diet book can deter children from becoming future abusers and stop abuse so it goes away for good.''

The intention is for any adult who knows There was a child - whether family friendtime, not that long ago, godparent or relative when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high- fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to create elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a relationship that is opencarbohydrate, has trustso good. There's a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and creates a space for children to able to share both can hijack your brain in much the good same way as drugs like heroin and bad things cocaine. Does that are currently going on in their livessound over the top? Well, with confidenceit isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546281398</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell1635866847|title=Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of AutismThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceLifestyle|summary=Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote It's strange, the international best-seller things that make you ''immediately''The Reason feel that this is the book for you. Before I Jump.started reading '' The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mindLavender Companion'', as told from I visited the unique perspective author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters slice of chocolate cake on the palm of a transcriberhomepage. Despite this slow I don't eat cakes and laborious method of writing, he has published several books desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in his native Japanthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and manages I was told to give public presentations make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to raise awareness fold down the corners of his conditionpages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8loved'' reintroduces us to Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first this bookalready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444799088</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim Bialik0760381267|title= Girling UpVerdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating= 43.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary= Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as ''The most important part of a girl, or garden is the one who enjoys it''Girling up. I've 'gardened' if you willin a vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and what it means I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to transition from school girl to grown up, via that hideous detour gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of teenage yearsvarying complexity seemed like the answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Raskin1394159544|title=Grow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and VegRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler

|genre=Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=I worried when I looked at this book: ''GrowRecycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' '', it said, Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.''A family guide  If you send an apple core to growing fruit landfill, it will take between 6 months and veg''2 years to decompose. Why did it worry me? WellA glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, it's I faced a mere 48 pages dilemma: reducing, reusing and the cover says recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that it includes might ''Games, stickers and MORE!possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit Almost everything can be used one more time and veg, so wasnany purchase must pass the test of 't Is this going to fall a little shortabsolutely essential? ' WellOn the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it doesn't in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - not at allbut what I needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon McGrath0760378134|title=Camping With KidsThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=4.5

|summary=When my daughter was young If you've ever thought how good it used would be to be joked that if a child asked on his fifth birthday able to go camping pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you told him that he could in five yearswouldn' timet know where to start, he'd be there on his tenth birthday, all kitted up and ready to go. These days this is the discussions - and delaying tactics - are more likely to be about technology - and mobiles in particularbook you need. Whilst itIt's wonderful that children comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you'dore going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you' embrace technologyll put these containers, it shouldnhow you't be at ll water and fertilise them and you finish the expense main part of getting out in the fresh air, being free of screens and having an adventure - preferably book with all the family doing it ''together'a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749576979</amazonuk> So, is it any good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pippa Mattinson1529149800|title=Choosing the Perfect Puppy|rating=4.5|genre=Pets|summary=If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and ''must'' have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. They then have to live with the problems which ''might'' have been avoided for a decade or more. The puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. She doesn't try to talk you out of getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785034375</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patrick Mbaya|title= My Brain Is Out Of Control|rating= 4|genre= Home and Family|summary=Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father. His career was going well and he enjoyed making ill people better. His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, often through the uplifting power of music. Life was good. But then...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524636649</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Williams|title= My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures|rating= 3.5|genre= Autobiography|summary=In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to write a show charting his experiences as the parent of an autistic boy. After registering the domain nameThings You Can Do: ''My Son's Not Rainman,'' he also decided to write a blog How to share his funny anecdotes and experiences. After a shaky start (''I had a handful of followers. Three of them were my brothers''), the blog eventually went viral as it increased in popularity with parents who felt a connection with John Fight Climate Change and 'The Boy'. This book fills in some of the gaps in the story, starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and ending, appropriately, on his thirteenth birthday, when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433880</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewReduce Waste|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones|title=Beloved Old Age Eduardo Garcia and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the RelaySara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=4.5

|summary=We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as begin with a novelist from telling story. All the golden age birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of crimethem stood and watched, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and excellent plottingunable to think of anything they could do. Her last completed book was not a novel but ''The Relay'', a combined account tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 water and suggestions as flying back to how other people might achieve a drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good old age for their relativeswas that doing. Margery died in 1966 and ''The RelayI'm doing the best I can'' was never published in , said the hummingbird. And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the form in which it was writtenproblem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262296</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgina Rodgers1849767009|title=Peace of Mind: A Book of Calm for Busy Mums|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the title, my job description (busy mum...well, that's just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, peace of mind. I have to say, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my life. I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, who is trying to wear a hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a multitude of roles, this book isnIt Isn't entirely sure what it's trying Rude to be, with everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNude|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|title=The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall AsleepRosie Haine

|summary=Roger This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the Rabbit wanted to fall asleep, but somehow he couldnchoir't, no matter how hard he tried. It wasn: the only people who't ll buy it are the people who know that he didn't do much during nudity is OK and the day, because he ones who ''didknow'' but sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the swingssupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, who had But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a notice outside his house saying book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They'I can make anyone fall asleep're fine. In fact, they' and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and fell asleepre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241255163</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jessica Lahey1504321383|title=The Gift of Failure: How to step back Single, Again, and Again, and let your child succeedAgain|author=Louisa Pateman|rating= 4.5|genre= Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary= Lahey's introduction claims 'You can'todayt be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man's over-protective failure-avoidant parenting style'. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn' is responsible t unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the caution and fear girl (she witnesses in 's usually fairly young people every day in ) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her job as a secondary school teacher, causing them to dislike learningso that they can live happily ever after. She goes on Few girls are lucky enough to claim be brought up ''without'' the expectation that, through this parenting style, we they will marry and have inadvertently taught our kids to fear failure at all costschildren. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722443</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John KempGraff_Find|title=Caring for ShirleyFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5

|summary=John KempWhen Ben Graff's wifegrandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his journal, Shirley, suffered from dementia and loss of coordination and for eight years he was her full-time carer as she was unable to walk unaided (well, she didn''could'' - but t take much notice of it was likely to result in a serious fall) and took care of all her most personal needs. Probably At the most heart-breaking part age of this is that Shirley 24, Graff didn't recognise John as her husband - apart from 'give us a kiss', realise the question 'where's John?' was usually gravity of the first which sprang to her lips in any situation. Although she could often have quite an affable disposition she pages he was capable of kicking and biting when she was being 'encouraged' to do something which she didn't want to doholding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479374245</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jan RobinsonGoodland_Worth|title=Tips From WidowsIt's Worth a Try|author=Nicola Goodland

|summary=IThis is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, ''It'm not s Worth a widow and I secretly hope that I never will be, but I picked up Try''Tips From Widows: '' I wanted to write this kind of book because when I was a close friend (who is supporting someone who knows young woman, ladies and gents told me that becoming a widow is frighteningly close) mentioned they suffered from abuse of some kind as children and only found the need courage to plan what to dotalk about it as adults. The death of a husband must be devastating, even terrifying, but as next of kin you have certain responsibilities Maybe this book can deter children from becoming future abusers and there are some things which you must dostop abuse so it goes away for good. Who better to give advice than other women who have experienced what must be the worst thing that life can throw at them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886553X</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=June AndrewsHigashida_Fall|title=Dementia: The One-Stop GuideFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: Practical advice for families, professionals, and people living with dementia and AlzheimerA Young Man's DiseaseVoice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell

|genre=ReferenceHome and Family|summary=Worldwide there are probably as many Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as 44.4 million people who suffer told from dementia and many times that number the unique perspective of familya teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, friends, carers and relatives who are affected or by what is happening to tracing letters on the suffererpalm of a transcriber. There's no cureDespite this slow and laborious method of writing, but it's not terminal he has published several books in his native Japan and the symptoms (memory loss would seem manages to be the most common, but in some cases there are hallucinations, sexual or verbal disinhibition, not being able give public presentations to work things out, difficulty in learning something new, finding your way about, or coping with the normal symptoms raise awareness of aging) affect everyone involvedhis condition. If you talk to people who are aging then it's not uncommon for them Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to say that they'd rather have cancer than dementia Naoki as you're unlikely to be an endless burden a young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on other peoplelife have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251711</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Bialik_Girling|title=The Art of Making ShadowsGirling Up|author=Sophie CollinsMayim Bialik

|genre=EntertainmentHome and Family|summary=Winter This book arrived on my desk to cries of ''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book?'' or ''No, that's Blossom'' depending on your generation. Mayim Bialik is almost upon us and the evenings are getting darker. Howeveror was both, rather than bemoaning the lack of sunshinecourse, how about putting but in addition to being a positive spin on the situation and viewing those longwell-known sitcom actress, dark evenings as the perfect opportunity to hone your shadow-casting skills? Shadow-play she is an art form that has endured through also a neuroscientist (and the ages and yet still has only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for the power to enchant and entertaincharacters). So grab Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a lampgirl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, gather round and get ready what it means to create barking dogstransition from school girl to grown-up, flying birds and a whole menagerie via that hideous detour of shadow characters..teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905695454</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Flowerpot Farm: A First Gardening Activity Book|author=Lorraine Harrison|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=With the demand for us to eat seemingly more fruit and vegetables every day, the world of grow-your-own is back. Why buy from the supermarket when you can release the kids into the garden to graze like cattle? However, before you do this, perhaps you should pick up a book like ‘Flowerpot Farm’ by Lorraine Harrison and Faye Bradley which will show them how to create their own fruit, veg and flower garden no matter how small a space they have to work with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782400818</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMattinson_Puppy|title=Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at Choosing the End of LifePerfect Puppy|author=Eric LindnerPippa Mattinson

|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and ''Hospice Voicesmust'' tells have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the stories of consequences. They then have to live with the problems which ''might'' have been avoided for a decade or more. The puppy and the last days adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. She doesn't try to talk you out of some fascinating people while it follows author Eric Lindner through his journey as getting a hospice volunteer particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and a crisis in his allows you to make your own daughter's healthdecisions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442220597</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean M Twenge and W Keith CampbellRaskin_Grow|title=The Narcissism EpidemicGrow: Living in the Age of Entitlement|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Twenge A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and Campbell have been studying the rise in narcissism as a social trend. They are well-qualified to comment, having worked since 1998 with social psychologist Roy Baumeister, who pioneered research in this field. At more than three hundred pages it's rather weighty for the popular market at which it's aimed, but even if you only dip into this book, I think you'll take home their message.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416575987</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewVeg|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=Be a Happier Parent with NLPBen Raskin|rating=45

|summary=BabiesI worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow'', unlike new carsit said, don't come with a manual'A family guide to growing fruit and veg''. There are always plenty of people Why did it worry me? Well, each with their own unique advice, happy to stick an oar in on whatever parenting issues youit're facing, but I have often found as s a mum mere 48 pages and the cover says that Iit includes ''m left confused Games, stickers and floundering, wondering which piece of conflicting advice is least likely to permanently damage my little onesMORE! '' Ihave weighty tomes which don've watched Supernanny. t completely cover what Ineed to know about growing fruit and veg, so wasn've read about how t this going to have fall a contented baby. So seeing this book, with such a nicelittle short? Well, positive title, I had to give it a go!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144411056X</amazonuk>doesn't - not at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude CarriereMcgrath_Camping|title=This is Not the End of the Book;|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=In many ways, the cover of my edition of this book is perfectly appropriate. Huge, bold serif script, with nothing but the typeface; a declamatory instance of the art in the most common of fonts, and that perfect semi-colon at the end of the book's name - proving that that itself is not the be-all and end-all. Buy this book, as you can, in electronic form, and you might see this cover for ten seconds at most, but it is so much part and parcel of what's within.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552450</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCamping With Kids|author=Simon Barnes|title=How to be a BAD BirdwatcherMcGrath

|summary=When my daughter was young it used to be joked that if a child asked on his fifth birthday to go camping and you told him that he could in five years'time, he'Look out of d be there on his tenth birthday, all kitted up and ready to go. These days the windowdiscussions - and delaying tactics - are more likely to be about technology - and mobiles in particular.Whilst it's wonderful that children do embrace technology, it shouldn'<br>''See a bird''<br>''Enjoy t be at the expense of getting out in the fresh air, being free of screens and having an adventure - preferably with all the family doing it.''<br>together''Congratulations. You are now a birdwatcher.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720866</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brett CohenWilliams_Son|title=Stuff Every Dad Should KnowMy Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=43.5

|summary=For In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to write a show charting his experiences as the parent of an object lesson in how important autistic boy. After registering the little things aredomain name: ''My Son's Not Rainman, consider this book's title' he also decided to write a blog to share his funny anecdotes and experiences. This is not one After a shaky start (''I had a handful of those collections followers. Three of trivia or whimsies for fathers to appear cool to their children (ten great variations on tag; 6,000 good records with which to ween your daughter off Justin Bieberthem were my brothers''), the blog eventually went viral as itincreased in popularity with parents who felt a connection with John and 'The Boy's not that kind of knowledge on offer. Here instead is practical information on rearing your own little thing, and This book fills in a quiet way this pocket diary-sized volume has some of the cojones to expect to stick around being useful for a generation, as it starts at budgeting for children gaps in the first placestory, starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and goes from the actual birth to marrying them offending, appropriately, on his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745536</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma Smith|title=The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Does the world need another guide to Shakespeare's plays? There are plenty about and students these days have the added resource of the Internet to get the basics. However, if it does, then this is as good as any you will find. It's nicely written and beautifully clear and above all, succinct. In fact I'm doing a disservice to Emma Smith already by terming it a guide to his plays, because she also includes the poems and sonnets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>052114972X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=Roman KrznaricMbaya_Brain|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live|rating=5My Brain Is Out Of Control|genre=History|summary='How should we live?' asks author Roman Krznaric. To answer this ancient question, he looks to history. 'I believe that the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past', he says. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as a Renaissance 'Wunderkammer', he has a stab at the big questions: love, belief, money, family, death. The result is a pot-pourri of delights which left this particular reader stimulated and invigorated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Maushart|title=The Winter of Our Disconnect: How One Family Pulled the Plug and Lived to Tell/text/Tweet the TalePatrick Mbaya

|summary=Back in early 2009 Susan Maushart - Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a single mother of three teenagers - came to the conclusion that the family plugged into their workstationsconsultant psychiatrist, TVs, DVD players, iPods husband and gaming consoles at the expense of normal relationships, or what we’ll come to call Real Lifefather. She included herself in this - her relationship with her iPhone His career was about the strongest she had outside of her children - going well and she decided that something drastic had to be donehe enjoyed making ill people better. So began His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, often through the winter uplifting power of our disconnect - six months without screens of any description, mobile phones or listening devices in the homemusic. Life was good. But then.. You think that’s not enough of a shock to the system? Nor did Susan - she started off with two weeks without any power in the home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668465X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman TschappelerAllingham_Beloved|title=The Question Book|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-the-year lists of the best books, albums Beloved Old Age and parties we have been What to in the previous twelve months. But can you, with some effort, locate the one you made in 1987? Have you ever constructed a graph of your ups and downs in a given period, and then decided to expand Do About it by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual and financial aspects and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them from 1 to 10 on several dimensions each? Do you have one of the books that list : Margery Allingham''100 things to do before you die'' or ''500 books to read in your life'' (and ticked off s the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend a whole evening and half of a night filling in dubious 'personality' questionnaires on the Internet? Have you ever doodled something, decided that it beautifully expresses the deepest essence of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRelay|author=Patrick Cockburn Margery Allingham and Henry Cockburn|title=Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia. a Father and Son's StoryJulia Jones

|summary=There are lots We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the golden age of avenues of support for those dealing with infertilitycrime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but what happens if you do finally get pregnant? certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and excellent plotting. YouHer last completed book was not a novel but 're still dealing with the scars'The Relay'', a combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, both emotional Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and physical that infertility can leave behind, but it suggestions as to how other people might seem callous to ask achieve a good old age for help from other friends from your support network who themselves aren't yet pregnanttheir relatives. This book aims to be a helpful guide that discusses everything from pregnancy to birth to parenting after birth Margery died in 1966 and ''The Relay'' was never published in the light of your history with infertilityform in which it was written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749954019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve RoudRodgers_Peace|title=The Lore Peace of the PlaygroundMind: The Children's World - Then and NowA Book of Calm for Busy Mums|author=Georgina Rodgers|rating=4.53

|summary=Like many reviewers The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the hardback editiontitle, I thoroughy enjoyed reading this book, a nostalgic excursion into my own childhood games and rhymesjob description (busy mum... Itwell, that's quite fun just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to identify the regional context find, peace of childhood loremind. It cleared up for meI have to say, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my life. I think the problem, however, as was quickly apparent in that like a South-East Londonerbusy mum, the exact nature of who is trying to wear a hitherto mysterious game called tag. If you have already delved into hundred masks at the classic ''The Lore same time, and Language carry out a multitude of Schoolchildren'' by Iona and Peter Opie (1959)roles, you might find this book adds little for a general readership. For the specialist, Iisn'm t entirely sure this book will take its rightful place in the scholarly literature on childhood culturewhat it's trying to be, with everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099505274</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy BartkowiakEhrlin_Rabbit|title=So You've Passed Your Driving Test... What Now? Advanced Driving Skills For Young DriversThe Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|rating=45

|summary=It's always struck me that Roger the most difficult time for young drivers is that period just after they pass their driving test. Someone has told you that youRabbit wanted to fall asleep, but somehow he couldn're an OK drivert, right? no matter how hard he tried. It wasn't that he didn'But'' you're out theret do much during the day, all because he did but sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on your own, without anyone to explain those odd things which you still haven't come across or to be the extra pair of eyesswings. You've got a sense of freedomOne night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, but somehow it's who had a little bit ''daunting''. Judy Bartkowiak offers something a little bit different. It's not another book about road signs, driving etiquette notice outside his house saying I can make anyone fall asleep and stopping distances – once Roger went home (it's some ideas was actually quite difficult for getting into the right mindset him to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to absorb the new experiences bed and learning some skills which might help you in other areas of your life toofell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218371</amazonuk>