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|author=Vesna Goldsworthy
|title=Chernobyl Strawberries
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=A book about a woman from a war-shredded country, who discovers she has breast cancer…Not a bundle of laughs, one would assume. One would be wrong. ''Chernobyl Strawberries'' is, amongst other things, very funny.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524472</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Kemp
|summary=People die all the time. I’m not trying to be crude, they just do. It’s the circle of life, or some less Disney-fied sentiment. And if everyone whose partner or parent died wrote a book about it, well, to say that would be less than good would be a severe understatement. For a book on such a theme to be worth reading, it has to have a pull, a twist, something to make you look twice. In Lucie’s case it’s the fact that her husband Mark was only 37 years old when he died. And not only that, he died during a bit of nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Talk about going out with a bang.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753555832</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ellie Laks
|title=My Gentle Barn: where animals heal and children learn to hope
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=As a child Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she suffer at the hands of her abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. Her only relief came through animals - and even then she had to cope when the animals were taken from her. As an adult she discovered that she had a real talent for healing animals - and that they helped her to heal too. In a brilliant leap of intuition she realised that if the animals could help her to heal they could do the same for others and so the Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a place of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584883</amazonuk>
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