![]() ![]() Finally, as she starts to emerge from her fog of grief, she travels with the von Feldsteins to Sydney where, amid the drama of the 2000 Olympic Games, everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. ![]() Set in Munich, the story follows Pip for a year as she crashes from one embarrassing, awkward mistake to the next. Pip leaves her home in England and tries to move forward with her life, taking a job in Germany as an au pair to the von Feldsteins, a family which is full of surprises - and not good ones. ![]() No Number Nine is a coming-of-age story about an 18-year-old girl who has put her life on hold for two years after the death of her sister. But when her past, present and future collide at the Sydney Olympic Games, she's going to have to decide whose side she's on - or she'll lose everyone she loves. NO NUMBER NINE Nouveau Campbell F J English Paperback / Softback Troubador Publi - EUR 11,89. ![]() Leave home and start a new life, lying to everyone you meet including your kind employer, your curious friends and the man you love? Pip Mitchell's an expert at making seriously bad decisions. What do you do when your amazing, beautiful, beloved sister dies? Hide in your room for two years. A story about grief, family conflicts and first love, with a dramatic background of sport and the Olympics. A novel with a strong female lead character who's flawed but who readers will take to their hearts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This page of book reviews and recommendations is a running list of the inspiring trail books we've read, either individually or as a family. Now, as we are getting ready for our own long hike we are reading and listening to trail stories from a whole different perspective. And these books that we shared as a family, sparked an interest in me to read trail stories and journals on my own, since not all of them are family-friendly. Since those first winter evenings of reading together, we have branched out into audio books. No Shackleton or Hillary, these stories are about adventurers like McKittrick and Miller.Īren't familiar with these modern day adventurers? After reading the following book list you will be. Damien wanted to focus our family adventure reading on modern day, non-fiction outdoor adventures, preferably human-powered hiking and backpacking trail stories. Five winters ago we started reading adventure stories together as a family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She set about a relentless, sixteen-year-pursuit of Chanal. What about her son, Eroline O'Keeffe wanted to know, and those other sons who had disappeared? Although everything pointed to Chanal as the perpetrator, the French justice system and the military seemed uninterested in pursuing the cases. In 1990 Chanal was convicted of abduction and rape. A year after Trevor's murder, chief adjutant Pierre Chanal was stopped by police, who found a Hungarian hitchhiker bound and gagged in the back of his van. ![]() Since 1980, seven young men had disappeared in the 'Triangle of Death' around Mourmelon military camp. The young hitchhiker had unwittingly strayed into the hunting ground of a serial killer. On 8 August 1987, the body of nineteen-year old Trevor O'Keeffe was discovered in France. A mother's story of her extraordinary efforts to get justice for her murdered son. ![]() |