Reinventing Me Book I: Baby to Teenager: 1 - Brossura

Small, Joan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0975117033 ISBN 13: 9780975117033

Casa editrice: Joan Small, 2014

Riassunto

‘Reinventing Me’ Book I tells of Joan Small’s childhood in Western Australia – from ‘The Bush’ to the city of Perth, and the family’s move at the end of 1956 to the small isolated mining town of Tennant Creek in the centre of the Northern Territory – a frontier town of tin sheds and wide streets with no piped water, and therefore no gardens or green vegetation – just a wide strip of WWII bitumen down the centre of the dusty main street, surrounded by rocky countryside with prickly spinifex grass and anthills like tombstones. Joan’s mother had been told about ‘Frangipani as high as the house’ but discovered the only straggling Frangipani was at the airport. Even more isolated was the gold mine of Nobles Nob – ten miles from the town. This was a shock to Joan’s mother, but Joan loved the opportunity of ‘two lives’ – her life at school in Perth, and her holidays spent in Tennant Creek. The story takes the reader from Joan as a shy and sad child, overwhelmed by her father and older brother – a loner and bullied at school - to her burgeoning independence, the positive influence of the Girl Guide Movement, and her decision to leave her family and move to Adelaide to live with her friend’s family. Book II continues the journey to this next stage in Joan’s life where she meets further challenges and blossoms into a young woman.

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L'autore:

Joan Small AUA QBE was born in Western Australia during WWII but spent most of her life in Australia’s Northern Territory, moving to the Gold Coast, Queensland in 2001. She is a freelance journalist, and since becoming an author has written several personal development books and a YA Fantasy Adventure Fiction novel. Joan trained and worked as a school teacher and has had careers in tourism, politics, administration and management as well as running her own businesses and taking on leadership roles in a number of voluntary and non-profit organisations, including Girl Guide leadership and breast feeding counselling, and Joan has run courses in customer service, as well as health and nutrition, writing and publishing. As an active member Gold Coast Business SWAP, she was President of the Year of the Club of the Year for Queensland in 2003, and has achieved the highest speaking level in Toastmasters International as ‘Advanced Toastmaster Gold’. The nutrition industry was a major part of Joan’s life for more than 15 years. Joan raised three sons who are all happily married with children and successful in their careers. In addition to writing and speaking about how to Energize Your Life, Joan designs websites, is a ghost writer and helps others to get their books into print and onto the internet. She has put into practice with success for herself many techniques for re-inventing herself and staying youthful.

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• Editore: Joan Small
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0975117033
• ISBN 13: 9780975117033
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 170