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DAISY GOODWIN

DAISY came to The Book Shop to sign copies of her new books 'Bringing Up Baby' and 'Silver River'............

.................................................."Silver River" is a memoir in which Daisy reveals that her mother ran off when Daisy was six, leaving their safe, middle-class life in London for a 'dirty, rude, sexy' northern boy called Joe in Swanage.

The need to share childhood holidays between two geographically seperate parents also instigated Daisy's association with, and love of, Dorset. In the book Daisy recounts that she never resented her mother's absence or divided holidays until shortly after the birth of her first daughter Ottilie, when she tumbled headlong into a depression so profound that she could understand the lure of suicide - fortunately, she found herself looking at her baby and thinking "I would never, could never, leave her".

Nevertheless, Daisy was left with the "astonishing, unacceptable fact that my mother had left me with the fact that I still loved her with an intensity that time hadn't dimmed", and with the need and determination to make sense of it all. "Silver River" recounts her fascinating odyssey to do just that.

Use this book as a recipe book for life: turn to it when you need some advice on everything from growing up to getting old; look to it for consolation when the phone doesn't ring or for inspiration when you are trying to do the right thing; consult it for words that set the mood for weddings and funerals; keep it to hand in dealing with life's emergencies or reach for it for reassurance when you find a new wrinkle or an extra pound; or have it handy simply to read some of the finest poems in the English language. The poems within, old and new, chart every trajectory of human experience and emotion. Start with childhood, move on through the traumas of adolescence, and arrive at the serial destinations of love, marriage, parenthood, the loss of love, ageing, bereavement, with detours into work, dieting, infidelity and bad hair days. Whatever life has to throw at you, there will be words here to make sense of it. Destined to be stained with wine, tears and marmite sandwiches in years to come, these are the poems to last you a lifetime.
This anthology of poetry is a witty reflection of what it means to be British today - frombad public transport, teeth and weather to our glorious countryside, sense of humour and stiff upper lip. These essential poems feature works from Blake to Betjeman and Kiplin to Jakie Kay............ ISBN 0007160283	Prozac has side effects, drink gives you hangovers, therapy's too expensive: for aquick and effective relief for all your emotional ailments try a poem - for however badit is some poet will have been there too. This book has a cure or at least a consolation for every modern misery, and no side effects...... ISBN 0002570726
This is an anthology designed to help you get through the stresses of modern life. For rapid and effective relief around the clock, 24-7, without side effects, try a poem - for whaever time of day (or night), you can be sure that some poet has been there too. To help you find the right poem at the right time, this book is arranged like a book of hours......... ISBN 0007106505	101 poems to keep you sane, a collection of poems tohelp you weather a whole range of threats to yor sanity. With chapters such as 'Domestic Goddess og Anxiety','Flapjack Frenzy' (for anyone who has shopped at Ikea),'Getting over it' and 'Emotional Rescue', this book is for anyone who wants to put their life back in perspective..... ISBN 0007127960
Ditch 'The Rules', pop psychology, scented candles, life coaches and aromatherapy. If you want to avooid being a casualty in the battle of the sexes listen to the people who know - the poets, men and women, who have been there too. 101 Poems To Help You Understand Men (and Women) is the ultimate alternative to the friend at the end of the phone....... ISBN 0007133960	Forget Chocolates, exotic lingerie or marriage guidance counsellors; the only props you'll ever need if you are in love or out of it are the poems in this book. These essential poems, which include never-before anthologided work, will tell you the truth about love..... ISBN 0007160658

(Daisy at 'The Book Shop' with her daughter Lydia)

Daisy Goodwin with Lydia Goodwin at The book Shop Bridport

All the above books are available from
'The Book Shop' Bridport...........