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Title:	The Half a Million Pound Girl: The Autobiography of Sarah Burge
Author:	Sarah Burge and Derek Clements
Classification:	Autobiography

		Hardback
Publication Date:		15 July 2011
ISBN: ISBN 13:		1-906358-88-5 978-1-906358-88-4
Page Extent:		250
Book size:		234x156mm
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Book Description: Sarah Burge has led no ordinary life. Perhaps better known as the ‘Real Life Barbie’ owing to her extensive plastic surgery, Sarah has become a darling of the press but her life hasn’t always been easy and her autobiography is a mix of heart wrenching highs and lows.
The Half a Million Pound Girl documents Sarah’s life from aspiring Italia Conti student, through a spell as a prostitute and lapdancer, working at a funeral parlour and a dangerous liaison with a married Arab that almost killed her, to training as a beauty consultant and having £500,000 worth of plastic surgery.
Sarah’s rollercoaster ride of a book also details socialising with Joan Collins and Timothy Dalton, sleeping with George Best and her affair with a vicar. She also tells the truth about her relationship with Hollywood actor Telly Savalas and how she got used to the high life whilst working as a Playboy Bunny.
In this honest account, Sarah describes meeting first husband, John, how he abducted their daughter after the relationship broke down and why the wedding photographs from her second marriage prompted her to have her first cosmetic operation on her chin.
These days, Sarah is an international celebrity and has appeared in the press and on TV and radio in the UK, Japan, Europe and Australia. She is a qualified Harley Street consultant and is in constant demand for interviews and photoshoots.
This must have autobiography is a ‘no holds barred’ story of a remarkable woman whose warmth and humour have enabled her overcome adversity to become a popular public figure.

About the Author: Sarah Burge: Sarah Burge grew up in Croydon during the 1960s. Her first experience of life in the limelight came when her policeman father famously arrested John Lennon for drug possession.
Sarah attended the Italia Conti stage school with contemporaries Lena Zavaroni, Leslie Ash, Tracey Ullman, Peter Duncan and David Van Day. However, the beautiful but naïve teenager fell prey to the charms of a man who groomed her as a teenage prostitute. At 17, Sarah escaped to become a Playboy Bunny and enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle for a while but declined Hugh Hefner’s offer to become a Bunny Girl in the USA.
The next few years saw Sarah appearing as a key witness at her property developer boss’s trial, working as a lapdancer and making up bodies in a funeral parlour. A turbulent period in Sarah’s life then followed during which time she was badly beaten by a married Arabian boyfriend, was wrongly diagnosed with MS, had an affair with a vicar and her beloved brother Hollywood actor Trevor Goddard died.
Sarah went on to take her beauty qualifications but inadvertently became a living advert for a cosmetic surgery business, undergoing numerous operations. When news of Sarah’s extensive plastic surgery broke in the media, during a benefits fraud case, she became dubbed the ‘Real Life Barbie’. The press couldn’t get enough of her.
Today, Sarah has an international profile having appeared in the press, on TV and radio in several countries. A qualified Harley Street consultant, Sarah has worked alongside prominent surgeons for many years. She runs her own beauty practice and is the founder of online magazine www.humanHi.com.
Sarah lives in Cambridgeshire with her partner and three daughters.
Derek Clements: Derek Clements enjoyed a successful career as a journalist for many years before deciding to retire from the profession in 2008 to try his hand at writing books.
In the past Derek has worked for many of the country’s leading newspapers, including 12 years spent with The Sunday Times.
Since making the decision to leave journalism, Derek has been busy working on several exciting projects including ghostwriting The Half a Million Pound Girl with Sarah Burge.
Derek was born in Glasgow but now lives in Suffolk with his wife. He has one grown-up son.