My Animals & Other Family
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My Animals and Other Family by Clare Balding is a funny, brave, tender story of self-discovery.
'I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of all, I knew how to love and how to let myself be loved. All these things I learnt through animals. Horses and dogs were my family and my friends. This is their story as much as it is mine'.
Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of boxers and lurchers. As a toddler she would happily ride the legendary Mill Reef and take breakfast with the Queen.
She and her younger brother came very low down the pecking order. Left to their own devices, they had to learn life's toughest lessons through the animals, and through their adventures in the stables and the idyllic Hampshire Downs. From the protective Candy to the pot-bellied Valkyrie and the frisky Hattie, each horse and each dog had their own character and their own special part to play.
The running family joke was that "women ain't people". Clare has to prove them wrong, to make her voice heard - but first she had to make sure she had something to say.
Released 8 yrs ago (12/13/2015 UTC) at The Papermill Brewers Fayre, London Road in Loudwater, Buckinghamshire United Kingdom
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Released 7 yrs ago (9/23/2016 UTC) at UK Unconvention 2016 - Birmingham in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom
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My copy was given back to me and that has gone to the other Bookcrosser so I am taking this to the London Meet Up tonight.
ETA the Camel and Artichoke has closed down! rahar109 and I went for a Cuban meal instead.
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But I didn't get to really enter the "story". I found it quite long, and finally realized I didn't take pleasure reading it, so I just stopped.
I hope next reader will like it better! :)