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A Single Step |  | Authors: Heather Mills McCartney, Pamela Cockerill
Publisher: Warner
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 312074
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.4
ISBN: 0446531650
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.92092
EAN: 9780446531658
ASIN: 0446531650
Publication Date: October 2002
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 You cannot put this book down until the last page! November 7, 2002
20 out of 25 found this review helpful
If you want to read the real truth behind Heather Mills McCartney and not the twisted, misquoted pieces in the press, buying this book reveals the truth about her upbringing, her struggles, her ambitions, her succesess, her charity work and her romance with Sir Paul. It is a brillant read and I just wish that she could continue to live her life happily and stop being hounded by the press who pretend to know her so well, but obviously don't as anyone would see on reading her ecellent book.
Second that! May 11, 2003
C. Cleveland (Dryden, NY United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The reader from Hampton has said you can't put the book down. I couldn't either. When I finished reading the first edition of the book, and this, the second, I felt really enspirited, and respectful of the resilience of the human spirit. Mrs. McCartney was raised by a father who abused her physically and mentally, and told her that she was worth nothing. She has been proving him wrong ever since, with style, and humor, and terrific energy. Whenever life has handed Heather bad breaks, she has rallied with courage and increasing confidence and savvy. She takes chances, she goes for the gold, and she sometimes fails. But she gets up, analyzes her performance, and tries again. Heather reports plenty of failures in this book, and one real mistake. But she's found her calling (helping amputees, and preventing them from happening in the first place), and she has found a man who thinks she's worth a lot of time and attention, and is happy to say so. This book will show you what Paul loves about Heather Mills McCartney. If you read newspapers in the UK or America, you owe it to yourself to listen to the woman herself.
Not worthless...worth a very great deal June 12, 2003
C. Cleveland (Dryden, NY United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
pThe book is about is the author's life, which, in the 35 years she has been among us, has apparently had more drama and more hard luck than any three average lives. The scenes of her life at home both before and after her mother deserted her children to escape an abusive husband are harrowing, and Heather tells us how she coped. With intelligence, discipline, an unquenchable taste for life, and a fine sense of humor. She tells a number of incidents from her life wih self-deprecating humor, with honesty about her mistakes as she perceives them, and with attention to what she learned from her mistakes and from her triumphs. pIt was Heather's father who attempted to convince her that she was worthless. It is Heather who has proved to the world how wrong he was. This book is, inadvertently, about one way that human beings react to enormous pressure: if they don't cave in, they become stronger than their tormentors, because they have to in order to survive at all. pSo, the book introduces you to someone who should have been a victim: abused by her father, neglected and abandoned by her mother, trying to make her way in the world without graduating from high school and without the guidance of competent parents. As she is beginning to succeed at modeling, a horrific accident leaves her without an leg or a career. Frankly, any one of the enormous deficits in her life should have been enough to sink a more fragile human being. How she managed first not to sink, and then to make herself into a serious force for good in the world makes for enspiriting reading. That it's also frequently funny reading helps explain why Paul McCartney seems to feel he's lucky to have found her. You may feel the same way after reading this book.
 A graphic account June 29, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
#8220;A Single Step#8221; is a graphic account of the life so far of Heather Mills McCartney and includes 30 personal photographs. By no means a quiet life the author certainly fills the 327 pages with a startling account of an abusive father, an absent mother, life on the streets, and lots more. And all that before the horrific accident in 1993 that altered her life for good when her left leg was amputated after a collision with a police motorcycle. Since then she has been involved in medical relief work and is an advocate of Adopt-A-Minefield. pThe 35 year old#8217;s life-story flows fluently and has the reader interested from the very beginning. Heather writes candidly about her life up to the point where she met and married Sir Paul McCartney and faced the media storm that came with it. She writes #8220;#8230;out of everything I#8217;d been through #8211; my mother leaving us; the abuse from my father; being homeless; even losing my leg #8211; I#8217;d say one of the most horrible ordeals I#8217;d ever been through was the media harassment that year.#8221; br brHeather#8217;s attitude throughout all the trials and tribulations has been to remain strong and not become a victim which should be an inspiration to us all. However, one can#8217;t help wondering if the extra pages added to her original life story #8220;Out On A Limb#8221; published in 1995, are merely a swipe at the media; the same media that she had courted for many years before meeting Sir Paul McCartney.
 Sorry , I didn't like this book June 2, 2003
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
I'm sorry but I didn't like this book at all, I read it only because I found a copy left behind in my hotel and I had finished all other books that I had brought with me. I didn't think it was well written, it seemed to have been written by a fantasist! - it seems extraordinary - and not without a degree of irony,- that someone who was happy to accept money etc. from arms dealers is now campaigning for a ban on land-mines from the very people who she once freely and knowlingly associated with. I know many poor and impoverished people but none of them has resorted to stealing or becoming 'glamour' models or associating with dubious characters solely for their own personal financial gain!
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