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Synopsis
A perfect child:* Dresses neatly and practises the violin before breakfast* Comes top of the class and is captain of everything* Is unfailingly obedient and sweet-tempered* Is a perfect credit to its perfect motherA real child:* Prefers shoelaces undone and mismatched socks* Shouts 'Bum!' at Granny* Turns breakfast and bedtime into a battleground* Is the normal offspring of imperfect parentsWith affectionate lack of illusion and a refreshing honesty about her own shortcomings, Libby Purves examines the pleasures and pitfalls of raising children from three to eight years old. Playgroup, starting school, rude words, pets - all these topics are tackled with frank good humour and down-to-earth advice.Best of all is her reassuring reminder that there is no such thing as a perfect child.
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About the Author
Libby Purves is a writer and also a broadcaster who has presented the talk programme Midweek on Radio 4 since 1984 and formerly presented Today. She is a main columnist on the Times and in 1999 was named the Granada "What the Papers Say" Columnist of the Year, and awarded a O.B.E for services to journalism. She lives in Suffolk with her husband the broadcaster and writer Paul Heiney.
Review
Libby Purves' prose is clean, sharp and in touch with things that matter * Daily Express * The kind of book that you race to finish and then think about for a long time afterwards * The Lady * A good story, crisply and lightly told, that touches on many of teaching's current preoccupations and dilemmas and that grows in depth as it unfolds * The Times Educational Supplement * All the compassion characteristic of her writing in her previous novels and columns. ... This is a humane and perceptive novel * Woman & Home * Praise for More Lives Than One:'An idiosyncratic blend of her journalistic voice ... With the skills of a writer who understands the proper balance in a novel between issue and narrative. ... This is her best novel ... [and] will find an answering echo in many readers' * Elizabeth Buchan, The Times *
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- PublisherHARPERCOLLINS
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0006375987
- ISBN 13 9780006375982
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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