What do you do as a single parent when your kids don't want to share you with anyone else—except the person you least want? Single mother Tess is used to having to fight for her disabled son's rights, and is wary of getting too close to men. But Dan, at 17, is more independent than she realizes, to the extent that he has taken it upon himself to bring his parents back together whether Tess wants it or not. Meanwhile, to their Yorkshire town moves Jack, a widower with a mountain of baggage and a stroppy teenage daughter sitting atop it. In this sparkling novel Donna Hay tackles tough issues with warm-hearted comedy as she writes about love and families, and learning to live with the cards you've been dealt, and being some kind of hero.
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LUNCH We are having a small publication lunch for Donna on 23rd June and will also visit some London shops to sign stock the same day. MEDIA Big feature interview with Donna on the Books page of the EVENING POST in York, which appeared on 18 June. Donna has a regular slot on BBC RADIO YORK'S Jules and Julia Show and will use the next show as an opportunity to plug her new book. MORE magazine will be reviewing Some Kind of Hero in their 25th June issue. We have submitted a number of features ideas by Donna to the DAILY MAIL and THE EXPRESS which are currently being chased up. 'Just when you think it's a comedy
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Donna Hay is a TV journalist. She has been a regular soaps correspondent of What's On TV magazine for eight years, and since 1998 she has had her own column in TV Times. In 1999 she won the Romantic Novelists' Association New Writers' Award for her first novel, WAITING IN THE WINGS. Donna Hay lives in York with her husband and daughter.
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Tess woke slowly, opening her eyes to the morning sunshine which streamed through the open window. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Doyle, Peter Jameson, Jack Tyler, Charlie Ferguson, Auntie Ros, Cynthia Frobisher, Sam Dobbs, Margaret Doyle, Mark Nicholls, Bernard Sweeting, Haxsall Park, Humphrey Crawshaw, Marjorie Wheeler, Tess Doyle, Emily Tyler, Hollywell Park, Miss Wesley, Leanne Hooper, Neil Wallis, Reverend Dobbs, Chair of Governors, Over Sixties, Queen Gertrude, Especially Emily, Jeff Kramer New!
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Tess woke slowly, opening her eyes to the morning sunshine which streamed through the open window. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Doyle, Peter Jameson, Jack Tyler, Charlie Ferguson, Auntie Ros, Cynthia Frobisher, Sam Dobbs, Margaret Doyle, Mark Nicholls, Bernard Sweeting, Haxsall Park, Humphrey Crawshaw, Marjorie Wheeler, Tess Doyle, Emily Tyler, Hollywell Park, Miss Wesley, Leanne Hooper, Neil Wallis, Reverend Dobbs, Chair of Governors, Over Sixties, Queen Gertrude, Especially Emily, Jeff Kramer New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Such a Perfect Sister by Donna Hay in Front Matter
- Waiting in the Wings by Donna Hay in Front Matter
- Such a Perfect Sister by Donna Hay in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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