In 2008, just as Laura Roppe was poised to burst onto the music scene, her doctor called her with news that left her spinning--she had been diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of breast cancer. Just days earlier, she had signed a dream-come-true contract with a record label; now, she wasn't
Unbound: Finding Myself on Top of the World
โ Scribed by Jagger, Steph
- Book ID
- 109075492
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 536 KB
- Series
- Story of Snow and Self-Discovery
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
In the tradition of Wild and Eat, Pray, Love comes an epic new story about one woman's triumph of spirit
Steph Jagger had seen the ski-lift sign thousands of times--"Raise Restraining Device," it read--but one day she took it personally as a rallying cry to shake off the life she had for the life she wanted. She had always been a force of nature, so why was she still holding herself back? Dissatisfied with the passive, limited roles she saw for women when she was growing up, Steph emulated the men in her life--chasing success, climbing the corporate ladder, ticking the boxes, playing by the rules. She was accomplished. She was living "The Dream." But it wasn't her dream.
In a moment, the sign on the ski lift became her mantra, and she knew she had to change her life. So Jagger walked away from the success and security she had worked long and hard to obtain. She quit her job, took a second mortgage on her house, sold everything except...
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