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Lori and Joe have lived in the Lake District for many years, in a quiet valley where one day is much like another. Bringing Joe his regular cup of coffee one morning, Lori finds him dead. She could call an ambulance, but what difference would it make? Instead, she heads out for a walk over the fells. As she makes her way through the November fog, Lori’s thoughts slip between past and present, revealing a marriage marked by isolation, childlessness and a terrible secret she’s never disclosed. Arnold’s musical prose merges form and content to express what cannot be communicated through language alone. Taking place over the course of a single day, yet revealing the secrets of a marriage of many decades, Lori & Joe is a sparse, intimate and deeply moving story of entrapment and isolation, and of a life in which desire is continually overcome by inertia: nothing changes and nothing is ever (re)solved.

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The Key Issues series addresses some of the major challenges facing early years settings and primary schools. ‘Parents as Partners' is one of the four themes of the EYFS and this book looks in detail at why the relationship between the parent/practitioner/child is so important, backed up by research into emotional development, studies from Scandinavia and other countries. More importantly, it provides practical advice and guidance on how successful parent partnerships can be achieved, right from before children enter the school/setting through to when they are ready to move on.

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Ash collects words, climbs trees and swims in a deserted lake with her beloved seven-year-old, Charlie. Bemused by everyday life, she has a rich and singular interior world. Over the course of a relentlessly hot summer, Charlie begins to pull away, and in a desperate attempt to reconnect with her daughter Ash does something unforgivable. As the gulf between them grows, Ash's life begins to slip out of her grasp.Winner of the 2018 Northern Book Prize, Slip of a Fish is a joyously artful and quietly devastating portrait of motherhood, loss and love, in all its kaleidoscopic complexity.

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The Key Issues series addresses some of the major challenges facing early years settings and primary schools. This new title looks at how, through questioning, practitioners can promote a more personalised learning led curriculum which is driven and led by learner's interests and thoughts. It will provide practical examples to inspire practitioners to focus on the use of questioning in their setting and it will highlight how all the strands of the EYFS can be covered through enquiry-based learning.

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