Anne Baker s'est formée comme infirmière en Angleterre, mais après son mariage, elle a vécu en Libye et au Nigeria avant de retourner à Birkenhead, où elle a travaillé comme visiteuse de santé. Elle vit maintenant avec son mari dans le Merseyside.
Pronunciation Pairs is a classic listening and pronunciation text that teaches students to recognize and produce all of the speech sounds of North American English. It also covers important features such as word and sentence stress, and intonation.
Der klassische Aussprachekurs Ship or Sheep? wurde komplett überarbeitet. In jeder Unit wird gezielt die Aussprache eines Einzellautes geübt sowie dessen richtige Betonung im Wort als auch Minimalpaare behandelt. Der Kurs richtet sich an Lernende auf GER-Niveau B1-B2. Durch den klar strukturierten und eingängen Lösungsteil eignet sich Ship or Sheep? sowohl zum Selbststudium als auch für den Einsatz im Unterricht. Diese Ausgabe enthält keine Audio CDs.
Hannah and her mother Esme are lucky to escape when their home is destroyed during a bombing raid. Forced to move in with Esme's difficult sister-in-law, they make the best of things, and soon Hannah falls for the boy next door, Eric Goodwin. But Esme's worried; she's always been afraid of Eric's father Arnold, and she suspects that Eric is a chip off the old block, full of charm but up to no good. Is innocent Hannah being drawn into an unpredictable and dangerous world of crime?
Beth Hubble has grown up in extreme poverty in Dock Cottages and although she loves training to become a nurse, problems at home are never far from her mind. Doctors have told her mother that, after fourteen pregnancies, she is too frail to survive another, but they will do nothing more. Beth is determined to help, but, in 1920, birth control is a taboo subject, and her quest for knowledge is thwarted at every turn. Meanwhile Beth has fallen for Andrew Langford, a hospital lab technician, who she hopes will take her away from the tenements for good. But will Beth ever find the love and happiness that she deserves?
On a spring day in 1947, Millie and Pete Maynard take their daughter Sylvie on a boat trip that is to end in tragedy. Poor Sylvie blames herself for the accident and Millie needs all her strength to comfort her children and overcome her grief. Then Pete's Will is read and further heartache lies in store. Meanwhile, Pete's younger brother and his good-for-nothing sons try to take control of the family business, but they've underestimated Millie's indomitable spirit. She's worked in Maynard's perfume laboratory for 18 years and is determined to protect her husband's legacy no matter what obstacles are thrown in her way.
An evocative and absorbing Merseyside saga set during the troubling times of the early twentieth century
When all seems lost, will her mother's legacy keep her safe? THE ORPHAN'S GIFT is a poignant and heart-warming Liverpool saga by Anne Baker, not to be missed by fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves.
A surprisingly funny inquiry into the complexity of suffering, and what it means to desire in a body that's failing you. UK premiere at the National Theatre, London.
Anne Baker's novel is a poignant, heartwarming tale of Merseyside life at the outbreak of the First World War. schovat popis
This book will train students to recognise and produce English sounds, and includes work on stress and intonation.
