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From the initial try-out with over a thousand Von Trapp hopefuls to performing on the London stage with Connie Fisher and an encounter with Julie Andrews, mother and daughter navigate the minefield of rehearsals, auditions and fame. This is a heart-warming glimpse into the sometimes not-so-glamorous world of show business and the delicate balance between being proud and being pushy. 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Interviewing friends and siblings, Lisa Gee finds out how they communicate, what they give each other that no one else can, whether sex [for the friends] ever did get in the way. Why, she asks, has every bond between men and women become so sexualized? How have changes in family life and our desire for independence affected our emotional make up? Addressing all these issues, she shows us how friendships across the gender divide are more widespread and necessary than ever before. 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This volume brings together scholars in a variety of disciplines and geographies to re-examine Hayley’s relationships with some of the most important poets, writers and artists in British history – including William Blake and Jane Austen – and to show how he wrote about people, and how people have written about him.  It restores Hayley as a valuable, yet often misunderstood figure whose literary networks, redefinition of the genre of biography, and intellectual influence extend across the culture of the Romantic period.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51608136024337,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51608136220945,"sku":"NGR9783031683046","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52656433791249,"sku":"NLS9783031683046","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3031683048.jpg?v=1751188797"},{"product_id":"stage-mum-book-lisa-gee-9780091921392","title":"Stage Mum","description":"Lisa Gee's six year old daughter, Dora, has been playing one of the Gretls in the Connie Fisher production of \"The Sound of Music in the West End\". 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Lisa Gee writes in the first person, in an extremely lively, approachable voice, as far removed from that of the traditional pushy stage mother as you can imagine.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53203271680273,"sku":"GOR003030863","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53562427998481,"sku":"GOR010422738","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780091921392.jpg?v=1772648751"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-lisa-gee.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}