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The no-holds-barred truth about what having a baby can do to your marriage – and what you can do about it.In the months after a first child is born, all hell breaks loose. A crying newborn can reduce a grown man to tears, turn a sane woman into a bottle-wielding shrew, and otherwise test the strongest of marriages. It sometimes seems that a baby's mission is to destroy everything it comes in contact with: your furniture, your clothes, your car…and your marriage.This funny, compassionate, opinionated guide addresses how the early parenting years impact marriage, using real-life stories from both men and women to tell the whole truth. It discusses in detail couples' frustrations over the division of labour, changing roles and expectations, sex (or lack thereof), and dealing with parents and in-laws. With real quotes from real people, and the authors own combined experiences, it offers a positive, humorous and solution-oriented approach. Addresses the impact of parenthood on marriage, detailing the insights of and lessons learned by both men and women.Provides common sense, tried-and-tested strategies to address the negative impact young children can have on a relationship.Helps you understand why this challenge occurs, exploring both the male and female perspective, and how you can address it.Written by three feisty women, who have been there and can vouch for the fact that complaining gets you nowhere, Baby-proofing your Marriage answers those nagging doubts in the back of the married person's mind: 'Are we the only ones bartering over who will do what and arguing about who has more free time?' And offers you easy, realistic solutions to keep you sane and your relationship healthy.

Every child's favourite nursery rhymes are collected together here for a new generation. These rhymes are not only classics but help develop language skills as children learn to recite them. Cally Johnson-Isaacs' bold, jolly little pictures capture the fun and mischief in nursery rhymes, while being friendly and appealing. A stylish volume that a child can treasure for years. Also available: The Lion Book of Nursery Fables The Lion Book of Nursery Tales The Lion Nursery Bible

The story is drawn from the Bible stories of the Nativity, with lots of children and angels. Dubravka's pastel illustrations give this picture book a delightful charm, which can be shared with all little angels in the run up to Christmas. Praise for Dubravka: 'Pastel blues and turquoise, warm orange and pistachio - ravishing!' Carousel about Safely Through the Night 'The soft pastel illustrations convey exactly the beauty of the text.' Books for Keeps about Little Grey and the Great Mystery.

Toddlers notice all kinds of interesting things in pictures: children, animals, minor characters getting into scrapes. This book recreates eleven Bible scenes with cheery cartoon pictures with lots of little extras for little kids to find. There is a panel down the side with things to spot reproduced and labelled. Fun to share and to look at alone!

His therapist. Their love affair. Her Little Secret.Cristina knows all about boundaries. As a therapist, it is vital that she keeps her clients at a professional distance.Enter new client Leon: educated, charming, affluent -- and newly bereaved, following the death of his married lover, Michelle. Cristina soon learns that Leon has an ulterior motive for approaching her: Michelle was one of her clients, and Leon is desperate for her insights into the woman he loved.Moved by the depth of his feelings, Cristina is drawn to help him through his grief. But as she struggles to ignore her own growing attraction to sophisticated, attentive Leon, her boundaries start to blur and then collapse, and the two embark on their own clandestine love affair.But why does Leon switch so quickly from charm to criticism, attentiveness to distance? Can anyone truly be as perfect as he paints his beloved Michelle to have been, and what is hidden inside of her off-limits therapy file? Torn between her conscience and curiosity, Cristina is about to discover the truth is far beyond anything she could have imagined...For fans of You, Before I Go to Sleep and Obsession, Her Little Secret is an utterly chilling new psychological thriller about obsessive love and the danger of crossing lines.Readers can't get enough of Her Little Secret!'A must read''An entertaining thriller that is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats''Fast paced, suspenseful and twisty. Gripping. I couldn't put it down, definitely worth a read''Blurred lines and boundaries in this tense, psychological suspense which will keep the reader on their toes'

'I loved everything about this book. The main character.....wow!' FIVE STARS'Another winner from Julia Stone' FIVE STARS'Clever, well-written page turner' FIVE STARSThrown together by fate. Entwined by lies...The police ruled it as misadventure. A young woman falling from a bridge onto Janice Thomason's car was not an act of suicide or murder, it's just an accident. But for Janice, it feels like fate has thrown them together.As a genealogist, Janice is used to tracking down clues - is even a little obsessive, one might say... The police know so little about the Jane Doe that fell on her car that she decides to start her own investigation into the victim and the people she knew. Surely someone must be to blame?Sometimes the only way to uncover the truth is to lie... and for Janice, living a lie comes all too easily.Gripping and chilling, The Accident is a psychological thriller perfect for fans of Amanda Robson and Shari Lapena.