Crossing Borders: 21 Inspirational Women Share Their Stories

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Written by best-selling author Julia Gregson, Crossing Borders is a book about female success. It contains interviews and photographic essays that celebrate 21 remarkable women who live and work in the border area between England and Wales, many of whom have received worldwide recognition in their field. This is a truly exceptional record of talent and achievement.

Each subject candidly describes their balance between family and work, the personal borders they had to cross to achieve their goals and how living in the country helped them to find or create their perfect job.

Inspirational and aspirational women are Crossing Borders with Julia Gregson. 21 women living in the Wye Valley share their daily lives with bestselling author and journalist Julia Gregson. Women interviewed include Royal Harpist, Hannah Stone; Revel Guest, film director and Chair of Hay Festival; Jenny McLoughlin, paralympic sprinter; Tiffany Murray, novelist & lecturer; and Jean Miller, painter. The book also features a barrister, a mezzo soprano, a butcher, a circus owner and an alpaca breeder.

AUTHOR:
Julia Gregson is the prize-winning author of three novels, one book of non-fiction, and numerous short stories that have been read on the B.B.C. and published in The Literary Review, Red Book and Good Housekeeping . Her first novel, The Water Horse, published by Orion, was runner up in the Waverton Good Read Award. Her second book, East of the Sun , was chosen for the Richard and Judy Book Club and became a Sunday Times best seller in the U.K. and was published in 28 countries. It won Romantic Novel of the Year and the Prince Maurice Prize for Literary Love stories. Julia s third novel Jasmine Nights (2013) was also chosen for the Richard and Judy Book club, the first novelist to be chosen twice. Her first short story won the Ryman s Literary Review Short Story Prize. Previously a journalist, for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Times, Good Housekeeping, and Rolling Stone in the U.S.A., she is married and lives in the Welsh Borders. She has one daughter and four stepchildren.

ISBN: 9781909823082
Author: GREGSON, JULIA
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07/03/2014
RRP: $49.99
Pages: 176
Dimension: 250mm X 200mm
Imprint: Graffeg