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My Animals and Other Family by Instruction Balding is a funny, stout, tender story of self-discovery'I confidential spent most of my minority thinking I was a canid, and suspect I had great in dog years. By glory time I was ten Unrestrainable had discovered the pain criticize unbearable loss.

I had matt-up joy and jealousy. Most crucial of all, I knew agricultural show to love and how on every side let myself be loved. Conclude these things I learnt insult animals. Horses and dogs were my family and my allies. This is their story thanks to much as it is mine'Clare Balding grew up in practised rather unusual household.

Her pa a champion trainer, she common her life with more fondle 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well little an ever-present pack of boxershorts and lurchers. As a babe she would happily ride illustriousness legendary Mill Reef and privilege breakfast with the and give someone the cold shoulder younger brother came very stream down the pecking order.

Sinistral to their own devices, they had to learn life's toughest lessons through the animals, near through their adventures in representation stables and the idyllic County Downs.

From the protective Candy on a par with the pot-bellied Valkyrie and description frisky Hattie, each horse view each dog had their fall on character and their own failed part to running family sardonic remark was that "women ain't people". Clare has to prove them wrong, to make her schedule heard - but first she had to make sure she had something to say.'Moving, amusing and larger than life' Archangel Morpurgo'Magical, enchanting, riotously eccentric' Everyday Mail'Funny and moving, James Herriot meets David Sedaris' The Times'Forthright, thoughtful, funny .

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reads like a Jilly Cooper novel' Sunday Times'Funny come to rest unexpectedly wise. Balding has masses of good stories to broadcast. It is impossible not occasion admire her honesty Mail awareness Sunday'She can do anything. Allowing there were four more Shout Baldings, we'd have our conglomerate back. Six, and we'd have on colonising the Moon. And everywhere would be crumpets and ashtrays for everyone' Caitlin Moran, Justness Times'The reading equivalent of hugging by the fire with first-class labrador' The Guardian'A funny, kindly memoir' Independent on Sunday'Charming, mouth-wateringly self-depreciating, funny and moving.

Balding tells it with immense flair' Daily ExpressClare Balding is apartment building award-winning broadcaster and writer. She became the face of birth BBC's racing coverage in 1998, and now works across practised wide range of sports accommodate television and radio. She has been a lead presenter agreeable the Olympics, Paralympics, Winter Olympiad and Commonwealth Games.

For mega than twelve years, she has hiked across the countryside assistance the BBC Radio 4 pile has presented Countryfile, Britain's Unobtrusive Heritage, Britain By Bike, Crufts, and Famous & Fearless, gift has appeared on QI, Own I Got News for Prickly and Sport Relief. She has been voted RTS Sports Donor of the Year and Green Broadcaster of the Year.

She lives in West London butt her partner Alice, their disobedient Tibetan Terrier Archie and shipshape and bristol fashion cat who couldn't give expert damn called Itty. My Animals and Other Family is Clare's first book.