Book reviews

ANNA PASTERNAK is the author of the popular column, "Daisy Dooley Does Divorce", which ran in London’s The Daily Mail for four years. The Daily Telegraph called it “a deliciously droll account of life after disillusionment, with a dramatic denouement that doesn’t disappoint.” It was also picked for Grazia Magazines Hit List. They said: Sharp, funny and moving.”

The must have book for anyone bringing up children apart from their other parent - it's become a very practical bible, people tell us they have it by their bedside, that they refer back to it and that it makes them smile! It's the book we couldn't find when we got divorced.  The aim is to help you, your children and your new family to move onwards and upwards.  Must have reading for everyone with no preaching; just honesty and help.

Running to Learn shows how you can direct each of your own steps towards taking control of your life and moving towards a place where it's perfectly okay to be you.

Finding out that your partner has had an affair feels like the end of the world. It is the ultimate betrayal and the most difficult thing to do is to trust again. This text takes a frank yet sensitive look at this topic. This book looks at why people have affairs and the effect they may have upon the person who has been betrayed. It attempts to help couples understand their feelings, overcome feelings of betrayal and help them decide the next step.

This text reveals how a lack of self-esteem can profoundly affect an individual's close relationships. Comprising exercises, advice, and self-awareness puzzles, this guide is designed to help the reader improve their emotional well-being.

Aims to help couples break free of old patterns of behaviour and avoid using words as weapons when the going gets tough. Encourages upfront discussion rather than resorting to nagging, and to bring discussion rather than confrontation back into your relationship.

This book explains violent and abusive behaviour and places it in a social context. It can help readers of any age and sexual orientation to change their own behaviour and to recognise when they are being controlled.

Turn a disappointing sex life into one that is enjoyable and fulfilling, and turn a satisfying sex life into an even better sex life. This book guides you through practical tasks, quizzes and talking points to help discover the sexual person you are and your likes and dislikes in bed.

This guide offers advice on how to learn to come to terms with a failing relationship, assess whether it is worth saving, and how to overcome relationship difficulties.

One in three marriages end in divorce. Living together, marrying, divorcing and remarrying are becoming part of the normal pattern of family life and there are plenty of depressing statistics to show the harmful effects that seperation and divorce can have on adults and children.

A guide to looking to a positive future after the grief of a failed relationship. Through self-assessment questionnaires, tasks and discussion points, the author helps the reader to reach a greater understanding of him- or herself and to build a new social life.

For parents who have forgotten what it's like to be a couple because their children have taken over their lives. The experiences of pregnancy and parenthood can be wonderful but they put a lot of strain on a relationship. This book recognizes the pressures and provides advice and emotional straegies so that you can enjoy parenthood while nurturing your own relationship with each other. The guide helps you to create time for yourself, improve your sex life, manage the demands of work and family, and work through disagreements and agree on how to bring up the children.

Offers practical and positive strategies for coping with the emotional issues likely to concern a new combination of parents and children. This guide includes coming to terms with the on-going role of the "ex", and addresses the decision of new partners to have children of their own.

The Director of Chiswick Family Rescue explores the myths and realities behind wife-battering and abuse.

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.