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****A More Deserved Life****

Advantages: Compelling
Disadvantages: N/A

This is the first book I've read from Anya Peters, my daughter-in-law gave it to me to read. Through reading it all my emotions surfaced, parts of it shocked me, other parts amused me and it also made me cry, but I couldn't stop reading it although I wa ...

moogi48 21.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Abandoned: The True Story of a Little Girl Who Didn't Belong - Anya Peters

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Abandoned

Advantages: Hard hitting- educational but tear jerking at the same time
Disadvantages: none

In short- an amazing book. The sort of book that needs to be read when you have a couple of days off work, as you won't be able to put it down when you have read it. I recognised so many incidents that I have witnessed throughout life that it made me crin ...

sue1506 23.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Abandoned: The True Story of a Little Girl Who Didn't Belong - Anya Peters

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Abandoned

Advantages: Written to an excellent standard
Disadvantages: I didn't want the book to end

This book was a gift from my parents for Christmas, and was one of the most loved presents that i received that year. From the second that i picked up this book i could not put it down, reading the terrors that Anya went through is truly heart breaking bu ...

skwragg1 08.09.2008 · Read full review
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A fistful of bulls**t!

Advantages: Loquacious read
Disadvantages: Not much content

...up with this chic (who is now a dame) in Soho in the summer of 74. An hour later I was in her bedroom snorting animal nitrate; her with her head phones on listening to opera, and me with my tongue about two inches up her magnificent bottom (no it ...

thedevilinme 13.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of An Autobiography: Grow Up - Keith Allen

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"Until next time, Sarah Jane..."

Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: Nothing, ever.

...19th April 2001. The day Doctor Who fans everywhere were brought to tears. Elisabeth 'Lis' Sladen has been labelled on more than one occasion as the 'greatest Doctor Who companion'. She first came to our screens in 1973 as Sarah Jane Smith, companion to ...

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Review of Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography - Elisabeth Sladen

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