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The Sonshine of Our Lives - Couverture souple

Redgrave, Sheila

 
9781449068806: The Sonshine of Our Lives
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1449068804 ISBN 13 : 9781449068806
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2010

Synopsis

Sheila Redgrave writes about her son Sir Steve Redgrave, the five times Olympic Gold Medallist which is based upon her own diary entries that she has religiously made each and every day of her life. The book depicts the Redgrave family life during the 30 years of Steve's rowing career. "The Sonshine of our Lives", is not a typo (although dyslexia does run in the family), but refers to the fact that Steve is her son, and that he has always been the sunshine of his parents' lives. The book recounts the Redgrave family history from 1975 to the turn of the millennium and includes all the family related events that took place during these years. It highlights Steve's major rowing competitions and the build up to these and includes all the heartache and the family traumas that happened in the background during this time. While supporting Steve in his ambition to become the best endurance athlete in the world, the book depicts the feelings and the thoughts of a parent observing, at times helplessly, the highs of her son's triumphs and the lows of his ill health during his courageous struggle to survive, against the odds and through two major illness - doing the only job that he was ever qualified to do.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Sheila Redgrave was inspired to write this book by her only son Sir Steven Redgrave, the five times Olympic Gold Medallist. "The Sonshine of our Lives", is not a typo (although dyslexia does run in the family), but refers to the fact that Steve is her son, and that he has always been the sunshine of his parents' lives. Sheila has used Steve's thirty year rowing career as the background to the story of the lives of her family members during these years and has taken the facts from the pages of her diaries which she religiously writes each and every day. She was born in Birmingham in 1931 to Ada and Harold Stevenson, the youngest daughter of a close and loving family. Sheila married her husband Geoffrey in 1952 and had three children, two girls, Christine and Jane and a son, her youngest. Sheila and Geoff supported and followed Steve to each and every rowing event that he entered in his long career - in later years, taking care of his children, being their 'nanny' in both senses of the word and allowing Steve and his wife Ann, to single-mindedly pursue their careers within Sport and Sports Medicine. Sheila's lifelong friends Queenie and Joan, whose husbands Arthur and Derek are Steve's Godfathers, all moved to Marlow Bottom in the 1950's and are still firm friends. Sheila has five grandchildren, Benjamin, Stephanie, Natalie, Sophie and Zak. The book recounts the Redgrave family history from 1975 to the turn of the millennium.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Sheila Redgrave writes about her son Sir Steve Redgrave, the five times Olympic Gold Medallist which is based upon her own diary entries that she has religiously made each and every day of her life. The book depicts the Redgrave family life during the 30 years of Steve's rowing career. "The Sonshine of our Lives", is not a typo (although dyslexia does run in the family), but refers to the fact that Steve is her son, and that he has always been the sunshine of his parents' lives. The book recounts the Redgrave family history from 1975 to the turn of the millennium and includes all the family related events that took place during these years. It highlights Steve's major rowing competitions and the build up to these and includes all the heartache and the family traumas that happened in the background during this time. While supporting Steve in his ambition to become the best endurance athlete in the world, the book depicts the feelings and the thoughts of a parent observing, at times helplessly, the highs of her son's triumphs and the lows of his ill health during his courageous struggle to survive, against the odds and through two major illness - doing the only job that he was ever qualified to do.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1449068804
ISBN 13 
9781449068806
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
420
Coordonnées du fabricant
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