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Feast your eyes on a treasury of words and illustrations from one of the most exciting young talents around, recently voted by The Times as one of the top ten literary talents of 2008.Enter the weird and wonderful world of Laura Dockrill …I draw like a left-handed baby, I can hardly spell my own name and watching me use a glue-stick is a bit like watching a large bear trying to ram his own head into a pocket-sized cat-flap …no, really.But once the book is finished, when I can see the pages coming together, getting thicker and thicker, detailed and covered with stories and my imagination recorded on pages …everything at last makes sense (to me at least).I did this because I have got things to say. I've got pictures I want you to see and characters I want you to meet – the crying ice-skating boy, the Rolf Harris obsessive, the rude girl in McDonalds with the chocolate milkshake and the try-hard Mighty Boosh watching mum.I don't keep a diary. I think they’re crap.But this is much more than a diary. This is my map.

The elite worlds of ballet and tennis collide in this scintillating exploration of the relationship between a dancer and her no.1 tennis player 'master'.Eloise has only ever had one passion – the ballet. But all of that is about to change . . .When injury ends Eloise’s glittering career as a prima ballerina, she is devastated. Lost and alone, and in exile from the only world she has ever known, Eloise can feel her reason for living slipping away.Then she meets an enigmatic billionaire, ‘Caesar’ King, who offers her the chance to dance again. His proposal seems to offer all she has ever dreamed of – a captivated audience and an outlet for her passion. But when she becomes embroiled in a darkly intoxicating relationship with the charismatic and commanding tennis champion, Stephen Nordstorm, all of her boundaries come crashing down.Eloise is plunged into a world that is both strange and familiar; one of elite competition, where power and winning mean everything. But the price she must pay is a high one. In this glamorous world of top athletes and extreme competition, Eloise is about to become the ultimate prize . . .