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Some Kind of Hero

Some Kind of Hero

by Donna Hay (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $3.25

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    Paperback 2004

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Synopsis

What do you do as a single parent when your kids don't want to share you with anyone else - except the person you least want? Single mother Tess is used to having to fight for her disabled son's rights, and is wary of getting too close to men. But Dan, at seventeen, is more independent than she realises, to the extent that he has taken it upon himself to bring his parents back together whether Tess wants it or not. Meanwhile, to their Yorkshire town moves Jack, a widower with a mountain of baggage and a stroppy teenage daughter sitting atop it. In this sparkling novel Donna Hay tackles tough issues with warm-hearted comedy as she writes about love and families, and learning to live with the cards you've been dealt, and moving on and winning. And being some kind of hero ...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 19 Jun 2003
ISBN 10: 0752840991
ISBN 13: 9780752840994
Book Overview: SUCH A PERFECT SISTER showed real breakthrough with trade sales of 8500 copies Winner of the RNA New Writers' Award 1999 for WAITING IN THE WINGS Donna Hay attracts features and her novels are widely and well reviewed: 'Breathless, funny and written with real sparkle' Yorkshire Evening Press; 'A warm, witty and entertaining novel' Woman's Own; 'Humour and sparkle' Katie Fforde; 'Raises the curtain on a wonderful new talent' Erica James With her own column in TV Times, author has great contacts in magazine world

Media Reviews
LUNCH We are having a small publication lunch for Donna on 23rd June and will also visit some London shops to sign stock the same day. MEDIA Big feature interview with Donna on the Books page of the EVENING POST in York, which appeared on 18 June. Donna has a regular slot on BBC RADIO YORK'S Jules and Julia Show and will use the next show as an opportunity to plug her new book. MORE magazine will be reviewing Some Kind of Hero in their 25th June issue. We have submitted a number of features ideas by Donna to the DAILY MAIL and THE EXPRESS which are currently being chased up. 'Just when you think it's a comedy
Author Bio
Donna Hay is a TV journalist. She has been a regular soaps correspondent of What's On TV magazine for eight years, and since 1998 she has had her own column in TV Times. In 1999 she won the Romantic Novelists' Association New Writers' Award for her first novel, WAITING IN THE WINGS. Donna Hay lives in York with her husband and daughter.