toy boy

* In Sarajevo, as the wife of a BBC war correspondent, Rosie

Whitehouse and her five children "heard the firing of the shots

that started a war". Heather Ryan asks what else she had to juggle

in the raising of a most unusual family. Cherwell, June 27th 2007

Recent Atricles

* Life as a frontline family. Choosing to raise her children in the

world's war zones required a special set of parenting skills. The

Sunday TimesJune 24, 2007

* One family on the frontline. It takes a brave journalist to report

from a war zone, but the families they leave behind often feel

neglected by their newsrooms.Rosie Whitehouse The Guardian Monday

June 11th 2007

THE RORY PECK TRUST

Part of the proceeds of Are We There Yet? Travels with my Frontline

Family go to the Rory Peck Trust, which helps the families of

freelance newsgatherers, like my husband Tim Judah, who are killed,

imprisoned or seriously wounded in the course of their work. Find out

more by clicking here - www.rorypecktrust.org

Frontline Families

I am working closely with the Dart Centre for Trauma to raise

awareness of the sacrifices that the families of frontline reporters

make on a day to day basis not just when something goes horribly

wrong. To find out more about Dart click here -www.dartcenter.org

The French Connection

Bringing up kids with dual French and British nationality? "Are We

There Yet? Travels with my Frontline Family is a witty true story of

one British mother's experience of bringing up her five children

phrasebook in hand." French in London. Click on this link to find out

why Are We There Yet? is the book for you -

http://www.franceinlondon.com/en_eventsview_1852_Are-We-There-Yet.html

Meet Rosie Whitehouse

* September 2008 National Women's Register Conference Bath

* 6th December 2007 6.30pm Kensington Library, London.

* 14th November 2007 7.30pm Hillingdon Library, London

* 19th October 2007 British Council Sarajevo, Bosnia

* 18th October 2007 British Council Zagreb, Croatia

* 12th October 2007 Birmingham Book Festival

* 9th October 2007 Leicester University Women's Club

* July 5th 2007 7.30pm Kettering Library, Kettering

Northhamptonshire

* 20th June 2007 6.30pm The British Association for Central and

Eastern Europe 10 Westminster Palace Gardens, Artillery Row London

SW1. In discussion with Vesna Goldsworthy author of 'Chernobyl

Strawberries'

* 14th June 2007 2.30pm-4.00pm The French Bookshop Bute St London

SW7

* June 16th 2007 Warminster Book Week. 1.30pm-4.00pm Author's Bazaar

Warminster Library. 7pm Warminster Theatre in discussion with

Melanie Pullman of the Armed Forces Families Association and

author Annabel Venning

About Me

Rosie Whitehouse

Rosie Whitehouse studied International History and then Russian

Government and Politics at the London School of Economics. She

had a successful career at the BBC World Service until she

became a mum. She then spent five years as a housewife in the

war-torn Balkans married to the correspondent of The Economist.

Back in London she continued developing her ironing skills as

she built a new career as a freelance journalist. Rosie has

written on parenting and family issues for a wide range of

newspapers and magazines and is the author of Take the Kids:

South of France (Cadogan, 2003). Rosie lives in Shepherd's Bush

with her husband the frontline reporter Tim Judah and their

five children.

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