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ISBN: 0670921467 (ISBN13: 9780670921461)
Edition Language: English
Setting: England,1969
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My Animals and Other Family Hardcover | Pages: 258 pages
Rating: 4.11 | 2964 Users | 327 Reviews

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Title:My Animals and Other Family
Author:Clare Balding
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 258 pages
Published:August 13th 2012 by Viking (first published 2012)
Categories:Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Animals

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'I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and I suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of all, I knew how to love and how to let myself be loved. All these things I learnt through animals. Horses and dogs were my family and my friends. This is their story as much as it is mine'

Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of boxers and lurchers. As a toddler she would happily ride the legendary Mill Reef and take breakfast with the Queen.

She and her younger brother came very low down the pecking order. Left to their own devices, they had to learn life's toughest lessons through the animals, and through their adventures in the stables and the idyllic Hampshire Downs. From the protective Candy to the pot-bellied Valkyrie and the frisky Hattie, each horse and each dog had their own character and their own special part to play.

The running family joke was that "women ain't people". Clare had to prove them wrong, to make her voice heard - but first she had to make sure she had something to say.

My Animals and Other Family is a funny, brave, tender story of self- discovery.

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It was definitely time for a change and an autobiography focusing on animals was certainly that.I think I found this particularly enjoyable since I grew up not far from Highclere and Downe House and when I was youngster, horses and ponies were a large part of my life.I hadn't realised that Clare Balding had actually been a jockey herself, albeit an amateur and to a certain extent it's amazing that she comments at the end that she hardly rides now given her childhood and teenage years.

Clare Balding is a well known sports presenter with a special interest in horse racing. I have no interest in sports and an out and out dislike of racing......but I adored this book, and could not put it down. Clare gallops joyously through her rather eccentric life, basing each chapter on a beloved dog or horse from the period being described.... She graduates from a plump Thelwell-type Shetland pony called Valkyrie, to gymkhana ponies, and finally on to racing the thoroughbreds trained by her

I loved reading this autobiography. It's well written in a style that doesn't come across as being "look at me and what I've achieved" as so many others are.I hope that there is another one to cover her televsion career as this one ends when Clare is 19/20 and she has achieved so much more since then.

Who is Clare Balding & why the heck should any of us care? She's a BBC sports presenter, was an amateur jockey, & grew up with race horses. I still don't really care, but her autobiography is told through her interactions with the more memorable horses & dogs she knew & it was excellent. There were quite a few & they're real animals - people to her (as they are to me), but animal people. She captivated me in the first chapter with our similarities growing up on a farm. She

An impulse pick-up from the library display.One of the best books I've read, considering I had no idea who Clare Balding was.An amazing life of where animals come in the pecking line before humans, (in some cases that is true) as well as a long line of heritage (which is baffling) and a grandmother who is not afraid to speak her mind about everything.Fav quotes:*Do it, enjoy it and if you fall, so what? You'll get straight back on again.*Be strong. Be yourself. You'll be fine*Be confident. Be

I have always admired Clare Balding, a sports presenter for British television. I know her from the racing coverage the BBC used to carry, but she has since gone on to do all sorts of events, including the Olympics and Paralympics. I have always admired her a lot. She comes across as an intelligent, knowledgeable and most of all genuine human being. I decided to listen to this book on Audible. It makes sense to me to listen to memoirs narrated by the author and I had a lot of fun with this one.

really enjoyed clare balding's autobiography by using the animals first then her family in a reverse of gerald durrel's book title but found it warm and heart felt and a honest look at her early life in the berkshire downs in the life of racing and stable/horses