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‘Williams’s memoir is as flinty, earthy and plain-spoken
as her songs’  New York Times ‘The often hilarious,
occasionally harrowing Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I
Told You is a bracingly candid chronicle of a sui generis
character plotting a ramshackle but ultimately triumphant
trajectory’  Wall Street Journal ‘An engaging
read and beautifully written’ MOJO The beloved
and iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up
about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being
overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her
enduring songs. Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was
anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep
South, she moved from town to town each time her father—a poet, a
textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties—got a new job,
totalling twelve different places by the time she was 18. Her
mother suffered from severe mental illness and was in and out of
hospitals. And when Williams was about a year old she had to have
an emergency tracheotomy—an inauspicious start for a singing
career. Â But she was also born a fighter, and she would
develop a voice that has captivated millions. Â Lucinda
Williams takes readers through the events that shaped her
music—from performing for family friends in her living room to
singing at local high schools and colleges, to recording her first
album and headlining a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall. She
reveals the inspirations for her unforgettable lyrics, including
the doomed love affairs with ‘poets on motorcycles’, and the
gothic Southern landscapes of the many different towns of her
youth. Williams spent years working at health food stores and
record stores during the day so she could play her music at night,
and faced record companies who told her that her music was ‘too
unfinished’, ‘too country for rock and too rock for country’,
and criticism that she didn’t have the right voice for radio or
TV. But her fighting spirit persevered, leading to a hard-won
success that spans 17 Grammy nominations and a legacy as one of the
greatest and most influential songwriters of our time. Â Raw,
intimate and honest, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You is
an evocative reflection on an extraordinary woman’s life journey.
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When Emily's mother becomes dangerously ill again, in this sequel
to 'Tolly and the Pirate Ghost',Emily and the twins, Laura and
Harry, time travel with Tobias, the pirate ghost, and his parrot,
Tolly, to a tropical island in the year 1660. Their goal is to find
the legendary Medicine Tree said to cure any illness, but there are
thousands of trees on the island. How can they possibly find the
right one? Tobias is reassuring but mysteriously disappears with
Tolly, shortly after their arrival, leaving the children to fend
for themselves under a scorching sun, with little to eat or drink
and no means of getting home. Their problems multiply when they
realise a band of ruthless pirates is also hunting for the Tree,
and will stop at nothing to gain the prize and make their fortune.
Time is running out to save Emily's mother and dangers press in on
all sides. As the situation becomes desperate, the children start
to quarrel and then to lose hope. More complications arise and
their spirits are in turn raised and then dashed. Can they think of
some means of escape or will they be trapped forever on a tropical
island hundreds of years in the past?
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