My experience of getting politicians to heed research findings taught me the power of the killer statistic and the good anecdote. So a book that seemingly would explain the latter - albeit dressed up as ′narrative′ - had an appeal. But Bold here offers more than that...And it must be admitted that most of her own experience, and the examples she uses to support her argument, relate to research on professional practice and/or by practitioners...That makes the book all the more relevant to social research.William SolesburySRA News

• Narrative BeginningsAutobiography, Biography and FictionWhat Is Narrative?Designing Research Projects with a Narrative Approach Ethics and a Narrative Approach Narrative ThinkingProvoking and Sustaining Reflective Thought Collecting Narrative Data Analyzing Narrative Data Representative Constructions in Narrative Analysis Reporting Narrative Research

My experience of getting politicians to heed research findings taught me the power of the killer statistic and the good anecdote. So a book that seemingly would explain the latter - albeit dressed up as ′narrative′ - had an appeal. But Bold here offers more than that...And it must be admitted that most of her own experience, and the examples she uses to support her argument, relate to research on professional practice and/or by practitioners...That makes the book all the more relevant to social research.William SolesburySRA News

• Narrative BeginningsAutobiography, Biography and FictionWhat Is Narrative?Designing Research Projects with a Narrative Approach Ethics and a Narrative Approach Narrative ThinkingProvoking and Sustaining Reflective Thought Collecting Narrative Data Analyzing Narrative Data Representative Constructions in Narrative Analysis Reporting Narrative Research