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Moyes clare balding autobiography

          The broadcaster shares the books which have inspired her writing career and life outside of her work and lines up her final Fantasy Bookshelf selection.

          The broadcaster turned children's author reveals her favourite fictional character, her love of Black Beauty and what inspired her to start....

          My Animals and Other Family

          My Animals and Other Family by Clare Balding is a funny, brave, tender story of self-discovery'I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years.

          By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy.

          Clare Balding talks to author Jojo Moyes about the phenomenal success of her novel #mebeforeyou, and why the response from her readers led her.

        1. Clare Balding talks to Julie Nicholson who lost her daughter Jenny in the 7th July bombings in London 10 years ago.
        2. The broadcaster turned children's author reveals her favourite fictional character, her love of Black Beauty and what inspired her to start.
        3. The broadcaster shares the books which have inspired her writing career and life outside of her work and lines up her final Fantasy Bookshelf selection.
        4. Clare Balding's walking memoir encapsulates everything we love about the countryside.
        5. Most important of all, I knew how to love and how to let myself be loved. All these things I learnt through animals. Horses and dogs were my family and my friends. This is their story as much as it is mine'Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household.

          Clare Balding recently released 'The Racehorse Who Disappeared', the follow-up novel to her bestselling children's debut 'The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop'.

          Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of boxers and lurchers. As a toddler she would happily ride the legendary Mill Reef and take breakfast with the Queen.She and her younger brother came very low down the pecking order.

          Left to their own devices, they had to learn life's toughest lessons through the anim