Personal Best, Adele Roberts
Personal Best, Adele Roberts
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Personal Best
From Rock Bottom to the Top of the World by Adele Roberts

Author: Adele Roberts

Narrator: Adele Roberts

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/11/2024


Synopsis

'Adele's inner strength is truly remarkable. Personal Best will light a fire of hope and determination in us all.' -Lorraine Kelly

Award-winning BBC broadcaster, TV personality and DJ, Adele Roberts, was diagnosed with bowel cancer on the first of October 2021. In the months that followed, with her partner Kate Holderness alongside her, she fought very publicly through the challenges of chemotherapy and life with a stoma, whom she named Audrey. Adele's legions of fans avidly followed this remarkable journey, struck by her determination, her stoicism, and above all the resolute positivity that she and Kate demonstrated despite the many hurdles they faced along the way. 18 months on - she ran across the finish line of the London Marathon, setting a new Guinness World Record as the fastest female with an ileostomy.

Personal Best is the story of those months but it's also a tremendously valuable, life-enhancing guide to surviving and thriving through life's challenges and setbacks, illuminating a path that anyone can follow to get back on track, go further than they thought and achieve their personal best in the marathon of life - punctured with inspirational quotes and playlists along the way. Personal Best will help you to take on whatever challenge you may be facing with enough resolution to give yourself the strongest possible chance of success.

About Adele Roberts

Adele Roberts is an award-winning British broadcaster, TV personality and DJ with over 20 years' experience, as well as being a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community. Diagnosed with stage two bowel cancer in October 2021, Adele is passionate about raising ostomy visibility and increasing lesbian representation in the media. She has been committed to her girlfriend Kate Holderness for over 19 years.


Reviews

It’s still National Poetry Month and this book is the PERFECT way to celebrate. Edited by the wonderful poets Erin Belieu and Carl Phillips, Personal Best presents the reader with hand-picked “best” poems picked by their poets and then give each poet the space to speak about the poem. The list of th......more

Goodreads review by River

Incredible anthology for anyone interested in getting into poetry, either as a reader or as a writer. This was a very diverse selection of poetry, both in content and in creation and form. And every poem came with a short essay by the poet about the journey of the poem, sometimes touching on its for......more

Goodreads review by Peter

I write poetry and read quite a bit of it, but I often struggle to understand what it is that makes a poem good. I know what I like, and what I don’t like, and with any anthology you will get both. There’s sometimes a chasm I feel between the poems that I don’t respond to and the lavish praise they......more

Goodreads review by Scott

Some amazing poems in this collection of many of today's top poets, including Kaveh Akbar, Jericho Brown, Victoria Chang, Eduardo Corral, Carolyn Forche, Jorie Graham, Ada Limon, Diane Seuss, Patricia Smith, and Ocean Vuon--among many others. But what really makes this interesting are the essays tha......more


Quotes

'Adele's inner strength is truly remarkable. Personal Best will light a fire of hope and determination in us all.'