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Unseen Lives
Pulling Through
The Hidden World of Modern Slavery Kate Garbers
Help for Families Navigating Life-Changing Illness Catherine Jessop
An exposé of modern slavery – an atrocity hidden in plain sight across the UK – featuring powerful stories of survivors, and explores what we need to be doing to help them. Modern slavery is far closer than we think. Yet it is largely unseen and unknown to most of us – a crime against humanity hidden in plain sight. In this revealing exposé, Kate Garbers shares moving stories of survivors she has met and shares insights she has gained through over a decade of anti-slavery work. Survivor stories are complemented by a forensic account of how modern slavery works and the many forms it can take – from forced labour to organ harvesting – and how it is enabled to continue by our current laws and systems. Unseen Lives also provides a vision of hope for those looking to challenge and dismantle modern slavery, laying out what changes we need to make as individuals and as a society in order to effectively tackle modern slavery and improve the support of survivors.
Down-to-earth memoir and survival guide charting a family’s journey through life-changing illness. On Christmas Day 2016, the Jessops were just an ordinary family, but on Boxing Day, one near-death experience swept them all into the bewildering world of hospitals and serious illness, and their lives changed forever. Pulling Through is a handbook of everything Catherine has learned on their journey. It covers many practicalities, such as explaining hospital tests and scans, jargon-busting medical terms, finance, rehabilitation and more. But it also illuminates the emotional aspect of illness and how massively it affects family and friends. There are chapters on the power of nature, music, counselling, optimism and humour, and how to look after the mental health of both patient and carer. This is a book of hope, help and reassurance on every aspect of coping with life-changing illness in the family: the good, the bad, the funny, the sad, and the useful. If you, or someone you know, has a life-changing illness, then this book is here to help.
“An inspiring, powerful memoir and a clear explanation of the development of modern slavery and the responses to it over the last twenty years. Written with humility and warmth, it demonstrates what an individual can do to really make a difference.” – Dame Sara Thornton, DBE, QPM, the UK’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner 2021 | £14.99 | 288pp | tp | World rights available | ISBN-9781785926358
“Pulling Through is beautifully written, extremely moving, funny at times, and full of love. It brilliantly captures the fear and frustration of not knowing what is wrong and then the challenges of living with a new version of someone.” – Simon Hattenstone, Guardian journalist 2021 | £12.99 | 304pp | tp | World rights available | ISBN-9781787753723
