Follow Your Dream

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Summary: This was a wonderful, enchanting and inspiring book.
Review: I became a fan of Daniel O'Donnell when he came to Derry in N. Ireland, to promote the Samaritans as its Patron. He struck me as such an appealing personality, with that quality of the ordinary, yet special that contributes to the making of a real star.

I bought his book! And I found the style and content so appealing for several different reasons.

Being of an Irish background myself, I thought his description of childhood in Ireland was a most appealing and very true representation. So often we are only faced with the worst senarios and it is a wonderful relief to know that someone sees his childhood as a time of joy, happiness and caring as my own was. In this way, I loved being able to identify with the lifestyle that Daniel described.

His rise to fame, and his struggle to achieve his goals was again presented as an enjoyable experience not a great struggle against adversity and oppression. He gives credit to all who helped and guided him along the way, from the people he worked with to the fans he sang to. It is so nice to read such pleasanteries.

The whole tone of the book is one of a happy life certainly with struggles but without misery - the type of life many can identify with which ends in a success story wich we all love to hear and hope for.

There are many humerous anecdotes which really lighten up the whole story, simple but true and all the funnier for being so.

I thought this a wonderful tonic of a book!