Babies and toddlers will love this interactive touch-and-feel book from the best-selling 'Ladybird Baby Touch' series. Look at the bright pictures of the babies on the left-hand page, then help your baby to feel the touch-and-feel mummies on the opposite page. There's also a mirror surprise on the last page for babies to see themselves and mummy
Baby Touch- Hello Mummy is part of Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate a baby's senses from birth. With bright, high-contrast colours and touch-and-feels, Baby Touch- Hello Mummy will help to engage babies' senses as they discover all sorts of babies and their mummies. Perfect for cuddles or as a gift for new mums on Mother's Day.
The Magic of Destiny is a work of fiction! The story is beautifully told and it captures the readers' imagination from the first page to the last. It tells the story of a young African girl, detailing the people, events and milestones in her growing up years, as she approaches certain maturity and of the struggles that she faces in order to be able to triumph over the very challenges, which could scar her entire life and her ability to love, again!
'It's okay, lovely,' I soothed. 'You let it all out.' She sobbed and sobbed as all the fear came tumbling to the surface. Foster carer Maggie Hartley is finally enjoying a well-earned holiday from fostering, savouring time with her brand new baby granddaughter. One night, though, the peace and quiet is interrupted by an urgent call from Social Services. A man has been stabbed, and Social Services need to find an emergency placement for his little girl. Maggie is used to children arriving on her doorstep at all times of the day and night, but nothing can prepare her for the sight of eleven-year-old Nancy. The little girl arrives in her pyjamas, covered in blood, and mute with shock. With her mother missing and her father in intensive care, the police are desperate for answers. Who stabbed Nancy's father? Where is her mother? And what is Nancy hiding about her seemingly perfect family? The longer Maggie spends with her little girl, the clearer it becomes that all is not as it seems. Can Maggie discover the terrible truth of what's been happening behind closed doors? A true story of hope from Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie Hartley, a foster carer for over 20 years. 'A moving read, very well-written' 5* Amazon reader review
It is 1979 and in a ramshackle cottage in Northumberland fifteen-year-old Ruth is desperate to leave behind the gradual implosion of her parents' marriage as she pursues her own quest for love and excitement. Fantasies about the son of the local farmer offer a temporary distraction from the rising tensions at home but Ruth soon discovers that the family are coming to terms with a very different tragedy... Told largely from the darkly humorous perspective of Ruth, Jane Feaver's novel is an engaging and profound insight into the relationships within families and the nature of love and loss, of grief and grieving.
The internationally celebrated author of The Debt to Pleasure returns with this major, breakout novel -- scathing and subversive, sharply witty and brilliantly observed as it follows the lives and fortunes of a group of people in London that becomes connected in unforeseen ways. Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the capital. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons and a powerful job in the city. Freddy Kano, teenage football sensation, has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream. Traffic warden Quentina has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged middle classes. Elsewhere in the Capital, Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to indulge the super-rich in their interior decoration whims. These are just some of the unforgettable characters in Lanchester's unputdownable masterpiece novel of contemporary urban life.
"In this first poetry collection you will meet some interesting characters including The Gold Prospector, The Master Perfumer and The Three Knights on a Quest. They invite you to consider themes such as love, nature, childrens games and technology in settings as diverse as a blacksmiths forge and a medieval banquet hall. You may also catch glimpses of the God who takes delight in his children and rejoices over them with singing while continually calling them towards himself by mysteriously disappearing.
Care work and care workers past, present and future are examined in this edited collection which guides readers through an introduction to care work towards a critical understanding of potential futures for the field.
Marriage is a partnership without any profit or loss. There is an invisible division of work in marriage, depending upon the gender. Aadya and Ishan, a married couple. Both are working but only one is getting paid. The other one is not getting paid and no appreciation. Until one day, Aadya demands money for each and every work she does. How does this one step change their life? How is their relationship is affected when Aadya pays Ishan for sex? How do they survive with and without each other at the same time? An uncommon story of a common couple.
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Our Crowd comes this suspenseful novel of a suburban marriage—and the betrayal that threatens to tear it apart. Barbara Greer is the blue-chip product of an old money Connecticut family. But she leaves the world of New England society behind when she marries Carson, a solidly middle-class salesman from the Pennsylvania town her family has always owned. Her new suburban life in Locustville is peaceful, quaint, and terribly dull. Barbara has suddenly become another bored housewife longing for a little intrigue. But on a trip back home, she finds more than she bargained for . . . In his acclaimed social histories, Stephen Birmingham offered a revealing view into the rarefied world of America’s upper classes. Now he brings his eye for human drama and telling detail to this intimate portrait of a woman caught between two worlds.