Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Marianne Talbot and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At 3am I was startled awake by the opening of the stairgate. Leaping out of bed I found Mum, clothes on over her pyjamas, grumbling she was fed up of being moved from pillar to post and was going home." When her mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Marianne Talbot decided she couldn’t put her into a care home. Instead, for five years, she looked after her mum in her own home. For nearly three of those years she chronicled for the readers of Saga Magazine Online the fears and frustrations, the love and the laughter, and the tears and the traumas of caring. Now, in this heart warming book, you too can meet Marianne, Mum, and the appalling Fatcat. You will also find plenty of practical tips for caring for someone with dementia and on staying sane whilst doing so, a resources and useful contacts section and Marianne’s reflections on caring from a distance, and on when caring comes to an end. Written for anyone, anywhere, who has anything to do with dementia or with caring; in reading it you will know you are not alone.

Download or read book Staying Mum written by Mara Lee and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a mum is an incredible journey that will change your life forever, but not always in the way you expect ... Mara Lee's Staying Mum tells it like it is, offering valuable advice about how to stay sane during that first year when, among other challenges, you'll be required to master the art of breastfeeding with bursting bazookas, bottle-feeding without a guilt chaser and settling your newborn baby to sleep on next to no sleep yourself. Featuring expert advice and seriously useful tips, Staying Mum breaks the code of silence about life as a new mum by revealing the truth about the good bits, the bad bits and, yes, even the ugly bits. Whether you're expecting your first baby or you're an experienced mum who's ready to look back and laugh, go no further than Staying Mum for a hilarious but practical account of the most exciting challenge most women will ever face.

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Alyse Carlson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roanoke, Virginia, is home to some of the country’s most exquisite gardens, and it’s Camellia Harris’s job to promote them. But when a political fundraiser turns deadly, everyone’s a candidate for murder... Cam and her best friend, Annie, are planning a gala for a local Senate candidate—a murder mystery themed silent auction where the guests bid on who will be the night’s “victim.” Coordinating a beautiful display of fall flowers and planning the perfect fake crime is hard enough, but with a guest list that is a “who’s who” of the Roanoke elite, Cam has her hands full navigating the egos and grudges of her high society guests. When local financial tycoon Derrick Windermere is found dead next to a shattered pot of chrysanthemums, the night’s fun and games quickly turn serious. Half the guests had good reason to want Windermere dead, but only one is suspiciously missing in action—Annie’s father. Now Cam will not only have to figure out which partygoer is a killer, but find her friend’s father before all their reputations end up dragged through the mud...

Download or read book The Trouble with Keeping Mum written by Rosie Wallace and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Annie finds out she's pregnant, aged 44, it comes as a bit of a shock - after all, she's been celibate for five years. As a divorced single-mother caring for both a teenage son and an elderly parent, Annie has enough on her plate without having to look after a new baby as well - especially as she still hasn't figured out who the father is. There are two candidates in the running: her ex-boyfriend Tariq and Andrew, the widowed leader of the Scottish Parliament. With Annie's job as Health Minister placing her firmly in the public eye, she needs to solve the problems of her tangled personal life before the press cotton on - and she needs to solve them fast.

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Dark Angels and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say you should walk towards the light. Well I didn't. I fled. I ran away from it. I pushed the light back and it splintered in my hands like glass. I thought I might be dead because there was no blood. I raged, I wept. I shouted. There was no pain. I screamed. There was no noise. It wasn't time. It wasn't right. But still, I did not know that I was dead. Still, I hoped that I was not. I wasn't ready... Has it been done before? We don't think so. Dual authorship is one thing, but fifteen authors? That's more like a writing team for a soap opera or a big TV series than a single novel. And who are the Dark Angels? Well, they're not bikers or Goths or heavy metal rockers, but an eclectic bunch of writers who have come together through the Dark Angels creative writing programme. Challenging themselves to come up with ideas for a collective novel, they chose the model of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, a novel told from the viewpoint of many characters with each chapter in a different voice. Gathered together in a Scottish country house in the coldest March on record, the Dark Angels started to create the characters to tell a story about a woman who dies in a Scottish country house – and whose family decides to transport her body back to London via a few special, possibly secret-laden locations. What they came up with is a stonking good story. By turns poetic, comic, psychological, philosophical, and moving. Full of secrets and lies, it's an adventure in writing.

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Laura Manning and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of her mother's stroke, a bond is forged betwixt strange signs and unexpected events. Exhausted by circumstances, Laura gives her mother up to the first of three nursing homes and keeps her mouth shut about it all. Until now.

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Jill Atkins and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of a series of hard-hitting family drama titles tackling topics such as homelessness, divorce and adoption.

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Jo-Anne Southern and published by Airleaf Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now living in Canada, outrageous and gregarious Cockney Eugenia Sztuka, survivor of WW2 and a widow, seems determined to make her childrenas lives miserable. Full of vim and vinegar at nearly seventy, she causes chaos in the lives of her three adult daughters and their families. Wearing clothing far too young for her age, and given to speaking her mind regardless of the consequences, she buzzes through life with complete abandon. Uninvited, she turns up at their homes, usually in some outrageous costume, and after a drink or two regales all and sundry with old Cockney pub songs with hilarious results. However, the large old family home where she lives alone hides a dark secret such that none of the family will visit. A novel that is both humorous and poignant, readers who have experienced or met such a woman will relate to this story.

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Perrin Briar and published by Briar Patch. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When modern-day Scrooge Hetty Loveridge saw the opportunity to exploit an inheritance tax loophole for her children, she took it. She need only live seven more years. One week shy, she keels over, dead. With their inheritance at stake, Peter and Kate get more than they bargained for as they attempt to fool the tax-man into believing their mother is still alive. For seven days Peter dresses as his mother, speaks as his mother, acts as his mother, and soon discovers she wasn't just the difficult woman he remembers her as. And when an old flame enters the scene, it's a recipe for disaster. At the heart of this fast-paced and funny tale is a story about family, redemption, and hidden secrets. Would you do anything to protect your inheritance? From the writer who brought you the Skip series and The Swiss Family RobinZOM comes this hilarious first part in a new romantic comedy quadriology.

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Kate Lawson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can YOU keep a secret? Find out in this riotous romantic comedy about secrets and lies, mothers and daughters and growing older but certainly no wiser...

Download or read book The Real Mum s Guide to Surviving Parenthood written by Jen Hogan and published by Orpen Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenthood – the greatest adventure of all. While everyone else on social media is dressed neatly and smiling happily at the camera – the picture-postcard family – you’re chasing a half-naked toddler around and simultaneously trying to remove baby vomit from your shirt. Welcome to reality! In The Real Mum’s Guide to (Surviving) Parenthood, mum-of-seven Jen Hogan is your expert guide, sharing her candid perspective on the rollercoaster of parenthood – with all its ups and downs, challenges and rewards – from pregnancy to the teenage years. Humorous and sensitive, realistic and always ready with an anecdote, Jen is full of practical advice while also appreciating the emotional involvement in rearing children. She understands that what works for some children doesn’t for others, and includes realistic tools for overcoming certain hurdles. The Real Mum’s Guide to (Surviving) Parenthood covers all aspects of parenthood, including: Pregnancy, childbirth and miscarriageThe newborn stagePostnatal depressionAdjusting to the new ‘mum’ you and the importance of mum friendsToddler terrors and ‘threenagers’Adding to your brood and adjusting to the new family dynamicThe primary school yearsThe secondary school transition The Real Mum’s Guide to (Surviving) Parenthood is for all parents, from expectant mothers to parents of teenagers.

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by James Gould-Bourn and published by Trapeze. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny Malooley's life is falling apart.He's a single parent with an eleven-year-old son, Will, who hasn't spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash fourteen months ago. He's being pursued by a dodgy landlord for unpaid rent and, to make matters worse, he's just lost his job on a building site. Struggling to find work, and desperate for money, Danny decides to do what anyone in his position would do. He becomes a dancing panda.After seeing street performers in his local park raking it in, he puts all sense of pride aside and spends his last fiver on a vomit-ridden costume... only to discover that the humiliation of his terrible rhythm is worth it. Not because he's flush with cash (quite the opposite) but Will has finally spoken to him for the first time since his mother's death. The problem is Will is unaware that the panda is in fact his father, and Danny doesn't want to reveal his true identity in case Will stops talking to him. But Danny can't keep up the ruse forever. Can Danny dance his way out of debt and finally reconnect with his son?

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Bronwyn Donaghy and published by Common Ground. This book was released on 2001 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised 2nd edition of a collection of comedic anecdotes about what really goes on in modern motherhood, first published 1997. Topics covered include toilet training, theme birthdays, the dangers of staples to costume creation, school projects and parent-teacher interviews. A PDF version of the book (ISBN 1863350373) is available at www.commonground.com.au. Author's previous titles include 'Anna's Story' and 'Leaving Early'.

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Gwyneth Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry sequel to Sunbathing in the Rain, this book is about depression. It is partly set in a mental hospital, but the treatment here, is playful and uplifting. The author has written this book first in Welsh, and then reinvenented and expanded it in English.

Download or read book Tressa The 12 Year Old Mum My True Story written by Tressa Middleton and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nobody knew the truth. For all those years while people judged me, I protected those closest to me. Now it's time for the real story to be told. It's time for healing and forgiveness.'Tressa Middleton made UK history when she became Britain's youngest mum in 2006 aged just 12 years and 8 months. Her case provoked shock and outrage - but the truth behind the headlines was far sadder than anyone could ever have imagined.Born into a life of poverty and neglect, Tressa was forced to grow up fast when she taken into care at just four years old. She was returned to her mother's chaotic world but by the age of seven, she was being abused by her own brother and at 11 years old she fell pregnant with his child. For years she kept his dark secret in an attempt to hold her family together until the truth threatened to destroy her completely.In the years since the birth, Tressa has gone through more pain and turmoil than most adults experience in a lifetime - yet today she survives a brave, strong and compassionate young woman. Now, for the first time, Tressa Middleton tells her own harrowing yet poignant story - a story of hope, forgiveness and above all, love.

Download or read book Hip Hop Hymns written by Mawunyo Gbogbo and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Hip hop and hymns: the two would always go hand in hand for me. My life would always straddle both. The sacred and the profane, all living on the same block, all divine in the end.’ Mawunyo Gbogbo is a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. At home, her parents argue all the time, and sibling rivalry runs deep. At primary school, Black Is Beautiful until a racist bully dares to tell her otherwise. But at high school, she falls in love with two things that will alter the course of her adult life: the seductive thrill of hip hop music and charismatic bad boy Tyce Carrington. Tyce also feels like an alien in Australia, despite his Aboriginality – or because of it. When Mawunyo’s offered a chance to further her budding media career in New York City at the Bible of hip hop, The Source magazine, she throws herself headlong into the city’s heady buzz and hustle – but even as it lures her in, it threatens to derail her dreams. Hip Hop & Hymns is a tussle between the search for belonging and ultimately accepting who you are, and a clear-eyed, heartfelt story about daring greatly and what it can mean to be Black in Australia.

Download or read book Keeping Mum written by Monique Lisbon and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've known since before I could speak, that there are some things I could never say.Even if I could have told my mother in words, she wouldn't have saved me. I did tell her without words in so many ways, and she didn't save me.There was only one way to survive my childhood: 'keeping mum' was the silent cost - my only possibility - of survival.'Keeping Mum' explores the relationship between the abused child and the 'non-offending parent' who fails to prevent, and even enables the abuse. This complex dynamic is often unrecognised, minimised or rationalised. These personal recollections break open a primal betrayal, revealing the pain of the child who must stay silent to survive. Powerful vignettes grapple with both the cost and the freedom of refusing to 'keep mum'.This book is the poignant sequel to 'Fragments of Home: Piecing Life Together after Childhood Sexual Abuse'.Includes full-length CD of songs by the author