Bøger af Pam Walters

"I Hope Prince Charming Drinks" is an irreverent read about a serious subject - addiction. Pam Walters presents and entertains readers with her true-to-life adventures, looking at the addicted mind and the depths of this disease. Focusing on the symptoms of a larger problem, she pursues relentlessly what causes so many to succumb to addictions that mask ongoing attempts to satisfy a deep dysfunctional itch.From flying high as Hugh Hefner's private secretary to Madison Avenue boardrooms to crash landing as a sales clerk at Bloomingdale's, Walters lived to tell the tales. How did searching for Prince Charming turn into such a nightmare? Can a young, beautiful woman - abused by others and later by herself - rise up again to the top? Walters has lived this tale of raw survival, a story of addictions run rampant, but it's also about redemption. Now she takes you with her. Sit back. Pour yourself a strong drink (on second thought, rethink the drink) and get ready for the read of your life. "As I stood at the edge of the North Rim, some 8800 feet up from the bottom, Hank urged me to take just one more step back so he could get a better picture. He stayed close to me - within an arm's length. I realized that this might be the end of my search for Prince Charming."

Growing up in British Guiana in the 1930s and ''40s ...In Demerara Sugar, author Pam Walters provides a child''s-eye view of British Guiana -- the British Empire''s only foothold on the South American continent -- that is by turns poignant, humorous and insightful. The sugar plantations of the Guianese region of Demerara were integral to the economy of the Empire. Expatriate English, Scots and Irish managed a plantation economy only possible with the work of field labour and a colonial society of merchants, teachers and government officialdom."All are childhood memories and what I gleaned from Kitchen-talk and word-of mouth stories from the people around me at the time," the author writes of the sources of her narrative. "[Those people] were the descendants of slaves who had been taken to Enmore from the slave ships and whose families had always lived there."With an unerring eye for detail, the author depicts her own at times eccentric family and household, against the broader backdrop of growing up on a sugar plantation 1930s and ''40s. She mines memories of her childhood with clarity and regard for the class and racial divisions of the day, deftly weaving together her recollections with the historical details of the period.The result is a complex, entertaining and resonant memoir.Includes 24 period photographs