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Towards Blue Skies: A Memoir of Innocence, Fear and Resilience
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#36 Amazon's Best Sellers List
Thrilled to bits !! - TOWARDS BLUE SKIES has made into Amazon's Best Sellers at #36 in Real Life Tragedy category.
As a debut author I'm so delighted and rather swept off my feet. My memoir started life just as a personal project with no aim at the time to publish.
It's not an easy read in places as it covers a difficult subject. It was an even harder 'write' and I shed a lot of tears having to re Read more of this blog post »
As a debut author I'm so delighted and rather swept off my feet. My memoir started life just as a personal project with no aim at the time to publish.
It's not an easy read in places as it covers a difficult subject. It was an even harder 'write' and I shed a lot of tears having to re Read more of this blog post »
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Thank you Vivian for your very positive review of Towards Blue Skies. I'm a debut author and very new to the world of writing. I'm delighted you enjoy
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"Towards Blue Skies is one of the most moving memoirs I've read in a long time. Adele Minnar writes with remarkable honesty and courage, sharing experiences that are heartbreaking yet incredibly important. From the peaceful memories of her early child"
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"Adele Minnar has crafted a trauma memoir of profound emotional clarity and restraint. Towards Blue Skies is a testament to the power of understatement. Rather than sensationalizing the pain of a childhood marred by narcissistic abuse, Minnar presents"
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"What sets Towards Blue Skies apart is its brilliant integration of personal history with cultural history. Minnar’s childhood is set against the vibrant, electric backdrop of 1960s Liverpool, a city in the throes of the Merseybeat revolution. The nar"
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"This memoir provides an incredibly insightful and honest portrayal of the long-term effects of a toxic and narcissistic parent. Minnar excels at detailing the small moments, day after day that constitute the slow erosion of self-esteem. She doesn't j"
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Dear Jennifer - I felt moved when I read your review of my book. Your reaction to it was exactly what I'd hoped for. Painful though it was for me to r
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In the UK we tend to call them beetroot. I wouldn't say they are trendy or a fad. My grandmother used to grow them and cook them for eating. As a youn
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Thank you Magan so very much for your thoughtful review of Towards Blue Skies. As a debut author it is extremely gratifying to receive a review such a
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Thank you Abdul so much for your kind and positive comments about my memoir Towards Blue Skies which I very much appreciate. I could have left my pain
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“I stood and stared. I frantically looked into the drain's murky water but the coin was nowhere to be seen. It had gone for good! I was paralysed with fear because I knew what was coming.”
― Towards Blue Skies: A Memoir of Innocence, Fear and Resilience
― Towards Blue Skies: A Memoir of Innocence, Fear and Resilience
“I stood and stared. I frantically looked into the drain's murky water but the coin was nowhere to be seen. It had gone for good! I was paralysed with fear because I knew what was coming.”
― Towards Blue Skies: A Memoir of Innocence, Fear and Resilience
― Towards Blue Skies: A Memoir of Innocence, Fear and Resilience
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