Jane Moore Livres

"The baby's cute . . . why don't you adopt her?" "If her own mother doesn't want her, why would I?" This conversation took place between two nurses in the delivery room right aft er I was born to a 16-year old unmarried mother. This was a precursor of the kind of struggle my life would be unti l I stood up and shouted, "I AM SOMEBODY!" Why did it take me so long I don't want you to think I am harping on the bad things that happened in my life. Despite everything, I am an incredibly positi ve person, who has taken a licking and kept right on ti cking! My saving grace is mentoring, and standing up for those who just need someone to stand up for them. Maybe one of these days, I will be more able to stand up for myself. I'm getti ng there. This is just my life, honey, simply the way it is. I am telling you my story. This is a story about success, and giving back to a community that mostly kicked me in the teeth.

Drawing on recent feminist and literary scholarship, Jane Moore plots the tensions in Mary Wollstonecraft's argument for female independence, mapping her ambivalence about sexual matters onto her quest for love.

A contemporary guide to growing plants to attract butterflies

Just when Karen and Joe Eastman thought they had it all, they learn that their young son, Ben, has a terminal illness. The only cure is for them to have a 'designer baby' to provide him with a perfect match bone-marrow transplant. But in the process, a devastating family secret is revealed. Originally published: London: Century, 2008.

In this handy book the team at Gardeners' World Magazine will give you loads of tips on how to get started if you've never grown fruit or vegetables before, suggest some fun and practical ways you can grow your favourite crops in a limited space or small garden, and tell you how to get the best from what you grow.

Jess Monroe is 34 and perfectly happy being single. But her friends think otherwise and, as a birthday present, buy her an ad on an internet dating site. Furious, she eventually agrees to go on just three dates - and ventures into a world where the description on the tin rarely matches the contents.

Fay Parker, beautiful and successful, fears she'll never find her perfect match. When she meets a charming man who adores her, she accepts his proposal despite her doubts. Their gathering includes exes, but one person has different plans.

A modern guide to growing fruit and veg in an urban garden.

Behind every good man there's the other woman ... It's Alison's wedding day, her gorgeous husband Luca is by her side, and everything is just perfect. Perfect that is, until Luca's first wife gatecrashes the reception and makes it clear that she's going to remain very much part of his life ... A stunned Alison soon finds an ally in Fiona, a founding member of The Second Wives Club and similarly plagued by her husband's ex. There she's introduced to Julia, whose husband has stayed best friends with his first wife - to Julia's intense irritation - and to long suffering Susan whose entire life is surrounded by reminders of her partner's saintly former wife. For the women, The Second Wives Club is a refuge and a lifesaver: somewhere to bitch and to gossip and to share horror stories about the exes' latest excess. But maybe if they all have the same problem they can work together on a solution? For enough is enough: it's way past time for the Second Wives to stop settling for second best ... Gloriously witty, and written with a sharp-eyed intelligence, The Second Wives Club is Jane Moore at her very best.

A second, hugely commercial novel from Jane Moore, well-known journalist and television presenter and author of the acclaimed FOURPLAY.