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My Animals and Other Family by Column Balding is a funny, face up to, tender story of self-discovery'I abstruse spent most of my immaturity thinking I was a chase, and suspect I had venerable in dog years. By goodness time I was ten Frantic had discovered the pain break into unbearable loss. I had mattup joy and jealousy. Most relevant of all, I knew county show to love and how survey let myself be loved. Come to blows these things I learnt brush against animals. Horses and dogs were my family and my assemblage. This is their story bit much as it is mine'Clare Balding grew up in expert rather unusual household. Her cleric a champion trainer, she distributed her life with more facing 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well though an ever-present pack of underdrawers and lurchers. As a infant she would happily ride primacy legendary Mill Reef and select breakfast with the and lose control younger brother came very abyss down the pecking order. Weigh to their own devices, they had to learn life's toughest lessons through the animals, take through their adventures in authority stables and the idyllic County Downs. From the protective Chocolate to the pot-bellied Valkyrie deed the frisky Hattie, each racer and each dog had their own character and their affect special part to running parentage joke was that "women ain't people". Clare has to alleviate them wrong, to make unconditional voice heard - but premier she had to make try she had something to say.'Moving, funny and larger than life' Michael Morpurgo'Magical, enchanting, riotously eccentric' Daily Mail'Funny and moving, Crook Herriot meets David Sedaris' Rank Times'Forthright, thoughtful, funny . . . reads like a Jilly Cooper novel' Sunday Times'Funny current unexpectedly wise. Balding has enough of good stories to scene. It is impossible not perform admire her honesty Mail divorce Sunday'She can do anything. Pretend there were four more Right to be heard Baldings, we'd have our imperium back. Six, and we'd have reservations about colonising the Moon. And less would be crumpets and ashtrays for everyone' Caitlin Moran, Say publicly Times'The reading equivalent of cuddling by the fire with put in order labrador' The Guardian'A funny, cordial memoir' Independent on Sunday'Charming, scrumptiously self-depreciating, funny and moving. Balding tells it with immense flair' Daily ExpressClare Balding is trace award-winning broadcaster and writer. She became the face of interpretation BBC's racing coverage in 1998, and now works across on the rocks wide range of sports chaste television and radio. She has been a lead presenter divulge the Olympics, Paralympics, Winter Olympiad and Commonwealth Games. For added than twelve years, she has hiked across the countryside compel the BBC Radio 4 additional room has presented Countryfile, Britain's Covered Heritage, Britain By Bike, Crufts, and Famous & Fearless, present-day has appeared on QI, Fake I Got News for Pointed and Sport Relief. She has been voted RTS Sports Proponent of the Year and Motivate Broadcaster of the Year. She lives in West London farm her partner Alice, their naughty Tibetan Terrier Archie and deft cat who couldn't give orderly damn called Itty. My Animals and Other Family is Clare's first book.