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This is an insight into our twenty-first century relationships in the U.K. reflected by a 'family law' solicitor. After years in practice divorcing people, arguing about our possessions and our children, she asks us to ask difficult questions. Who are we? How well do we know ourselves and our sexuality? What do we really want from our relationships? The book is peppered with illustrations from her professional and personal life. It discusses how our modern life of internet, mobiles, contraceptives, travel and media freedom has changed the partnerships we make, our expectations of them and the transparency under which they are conducted. Without the past's religious and moral restrictions and with our massive strides towards an Egalitarian society, both genders are struggling to maintain the 'Fairy Tale' of a life-long union filled with love and children. She examines why we take more sexual partners and increasingly 'cheat' and why total honesty may be the only route to true intimacy and preservation of the family unit. She deals with many of the relevant legal issues and procedures and includes interesting government statistics. Not a book for the morally conservative - as the cover suggests - it is brutally honest on occasion and challenging throughout. It does not seek to provide answers but to stir us into thought; to fire us into disagreement; to provoke us to grasp the inevitable nettles within our modern land-scaped relationships and find our own individual ways to make them long, happy and truly intimate.

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Raised in Stourbridge, Sharon attended King Edward VI Sixth Form College. She gained her Honours Degree in Law at Liverpool University and her Solicitors' Finals at Lancaster Gate Law College, London. After two years training, she qualified as a solicitor and joined a busy medium-sized practice in Birmingham in 1991 following two years of extensive travel abroad. During her last ten years in practice she was a partner heading the Matrimonial Department, a regular advocate in the County Court and throughout her career family law predominated. Over that time she assisted the local Citizens Advice Bureaus and staunchly supported the provision of Legal Aid (now Public Funding). She held specialist qualifications with both The Law Society and The Solicitors Family Law Association and was responsible for training several of her colleagues. 'The Unconventional Sharon Moore' was how the editor of a magazine profile described her. Perhaps this was not a hard reputation to earn within the legal world's confines. The accompanying photo showed a besuited woman standing against her motorbike (as the senior partner felt it inappropriate for her to be sitting astride it!) She has lectured, spoken on local and national radio and written for relevant publications about family law. This is her first book and one which she has increasingly felt compelled to write. For the last two years Sharon has relinquished her career to write this book and travel again. She is currently working on her second book 'My Fairy Tale'.

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