The girl who was abandoned by her mother at 9, ran away from home, joined the circus, and ended up sleeping under the arches of Waterloo Station.
The swimwear model with the longest lakes in London who lost a leg when she was hit by a police motorcycle in a freak accident, left the hospital and learned to walk, run, ski and dance again.
The charity worker who forced the world to help thousands of children disabled by bombs in European war zones.
The woman who won the heart of a Beatle and ended up in the middle of the ugliest celebrity divorce battle in history.
This is her uniquely inspiring life story.
Neil Simpson is an award-winning journalist and one of Britain's most prolific celebrity biographers. Recent books include the lives of singer Charlotte Church and Hell's Kitchen star Gordon Ramsay, whose book Gordon Ramsay: The Biography made it into the Amazon Hot 100 within a month of its release.