Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
BOOK OF THE WEEK with Charlie Richards. Truly Happy Baby… It Worked for Me: A practical parenting guide from a mum you can trust, Holly Willoughby, ISBN 978-0008172527 (Harper Thorsons) BD9.600 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Whether you’ve just had a baby or you’re about to welcome your new little bundle into the world, you probably have a LOT of questions.
The author also knows from first-hand experience with here three babies that one-size-fits-all parenting doesn’t work. So this book is to help you find out what will work for you and your baby.
She’s included all the information and friendly advice she wishes she’d been given before she became a mum for the first time, alongside the routines, shortcuts and tips that worked.
This book will empower you during your first 12 months of parenthood to trust your own mummy intuition, and to care for your children in your own way – confidently and happily.
We all have that intuition, we just need to learn to tune into it, she says. With chapters on feeding, sleeping, wellbeing and lifestyle – as well as how to look after yourself – this book will equip readers with all the know-how needed to get through the sleepless nights and concerns, to all the magical first moments.
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Go Set a Watchman , Harper Lee, ISBN 978-1784752460 (Arrow) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus.
Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her.
Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt.
Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past – a journey that can be guided only by one’s own conscience.
Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humour and effortless precision – a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times.
It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to a classic.
My favourite read of the week
Sunshine Over Wildflower Cottage, Milly Johnson, ISBN 978-1471140488 (Simon & Schuster) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Viv arrives at Wildflower Cottage, a tumbledown animal sanctuary, for the summer. Her job is to help with the admin, but the truth is she is here for something much closer to her heart.
Geraldine runs the Wildflower Cottage sanctuary. She escaped from her past to find happiness here, but now her place of refuge is about to come under threat. Can she keep her history at bay and her future safe?
Back home, Viv’s mother Stel thinks she might have found a man who will treat her right for once. Ian is kind, considerate, and clearly head over heels for her. That’s what she has wanted all along, isn’t it?
Escape to Wildflower Cottage this summer for love, laughter and friendship.
