The Unsinkable Heather Mills: The Unauthorized Biography of the Great Pretender (Hardcover)

~ Neil Simpson (Author)

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Product Description

Who exactly is the woman who was married to the most famous living Beatle?

About the Author

Neil Simpson is the author of many celebrity biographies including "Billie Piper, Charlotte Church, Gordon Ramsay, Jade's World, Kings of Comedy," and "Paul O'Grady."

Product Details

• Hardcover: 226 pages
• Publisher: Phoenix Books (December 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597775576
• ISBN-13: 978-1597775571
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,453,512 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars OK So Her Do-Do Doesn't Stink, July 8, 2008

By	Stupendous Bob (NYC) - See all my reviews

This really isn't an objective look at Miss Mill's life. It's more of a defense of her life and the author seems bent on painting her in the most positive light. I'm aware that Heather Mills has been an advocate for many hurting people. I'm also aware that she often seems about ready to explode.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Paid in Full, January 13, 2008

By	Yvonne M. Adler - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I read this book's promotion in one of Cindy Adams' columns this past November. I read the "book" was going to be an expose of that vile woman, Heather Mills. Imagine my surprise when "it" arrived and I started reading the drivel. What it is, folks (and make no mistake about it) is a Paid in Full manuscript for money received. Heather Mills used her husband's money to finance a whitewash of her sorry life. She used his money to make her appear as another Mother Theresa. I have never thrown away a book in my life. Let this be the first to smell the inside of my garbage container!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Unsinkable Heather Mills: The Unauthorized Biography of The Great Pretender, February 26, 2008

By	Catherine Laavin "Voracious Reader" (United States) - See all my reviews

If this is 'unauthorized' Mr.Simpson is the best researcher and ghost-writer since Andrew Morton. Or and this explanation makes more sense and closer to the truth-this was written with an all too real [ and no doubt unnerving ] awareness that Mills is the most litigious, infamous person the public and press have seen in a very long time. Mills had a hard life growing up. A horrific accident at age 25. That she overcame all this is admirable. That she sees fit to exacerbate the truth or even justify a lot of unsavory things - stealing from a jewelry store where she worked; 'Love Manual'photos; 'parties' at The Dorchester, etc.-in her life that've recently came back to haunt her. She shows a lack of empathy and the complete absence of a moral compass. It's chilling at best. Give Neil Simpson credit: he did the best he could in that particular area but had very little to work with. The shoplifting, stealing are blamed on someone else. Sells the stolen jewelry then she's befuddled of "why didn't anyone ask why someone this young was doing with this much jewelry?" Mills makes it sound as though she were an apple cheeked 15 yr.old. Actually, this is probably the closest in the book she comes to admitting she felt bad about what happened. That it very nearly put the store owner out of business: wreaked havoc within his store: with other longtime employees and the subsequent fall-out from it is not gone into at any length. In almost everything else, she's allegedly blameless. Being a kept woman by a married man while in Paris; running off with a ski-instructor in the former Yugoslavia while married to Alfie Karmal-all in the name of the greater good one could allege. Money can't buy her ENOUGH 'things.' She is even QUOTED as saying she learned early on, money was power. No duh. Love makes the world go 'round but money is the gravitational pull keeping it on its' axis. There have been plenty of women born, raised in difficult circumstances who know that. Women who made something of themselves without using their bodies in 'Love Photos,' drinking watered down champagne, getting paid for it. The book sings one too many hallelujah choruses about her " excellent, professional abilities as a terrific business woman " over and over. Then again allegedly appealing to the lowest common denominator, perhaps not ENOUGH choruses were sung.