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2017.
Entrepreneur Receives Rising Star Award Week Before Book Launch: The Mango Girl

[image]Press Release - 20thJune 2017

Dr Ava Eagle Brown wins WeAreTheCity 2017 Rising Star Awards the week before the UK launch of The Mango Girl

 

London, United Kingdom: Now in its third year, the Rising Star awards were introducedto showcase the UK pipeline of female talent below management and to create 100 female role models across 20 different industries and professions. Dr Ava Eagle Brown (https://risingstars.wearethecity.com/dr-ava-eagle-brown-ava-eagle-brown/)has been awarded the Entrepreneurs prize. This recognition comes just one week before the launch of her latest book The Mango Girl (Filament Publishing).

 

The awards were entered by 1,250 individuals and were considered by a panel of 33 independent judges. Over 35,000 public votes were received for the 200 shortlisted nominees. Multi-award winning international speaker, author and transformation mindset coach, Dr Ava Eagle Brown is in a class of her own. Ava's powerful story of her journey from poverty and abuse to fleeing Jamaica and establishing a new life in the United Kingdom is told in her two autobiographical books, Bamboo and Fern and The Mango Girl - due for release next week (29thJune 2017).

Her story has been optioned into a Hollywood feature film. Ava was nominated as a finalist in the Women 4 Africa (Author) and Diva of Colour awards (Author) in 2015 for her work. Ava is determined to help others tell their story - her 'Get your Book Out Of Your Gut' program has helped many write their inspiring life stories. Her journey has also inspired the creation of the popular Awakening your Life's Purpose, Skyrocket your Self-Esteem and Leap into Significance programs which offer new insights and mind blowing calls to action to help people to conquer some of life's biggest issues. Her passion for caring for the types of communities that she left remains strong. She writes a column for a Caribbean magazine and contributes to The Jamaican Gleaner, Be Magazine published in West Africa and The Children Hope Newspaper. Her articles have been featured The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Voice Online.

 

Vanessa Vallely, MD of WeAreTheCity said: "It has been a total honour to run this year's awards and highlight the achievements of so many amazing women, the calibre of entries was truly phenomenal. WeAreTheCity is very much about supporting the female pipeline and introducing these awards was a perfect opportunity to showcase the amazing talent of women across the UK. We are exceptionally proud of our winners and look forward to following their future success. We wouldn't have been able to launch these awards without the support of so many organisations who took no convincing to support these women and recognise their achievements. Both myself, my team, our sponsors, judges and supporters are very much looking forward to celebrating with all of our winners".

 

The book launch...

Dr Ava Eagle Brown is hosting the London launch of The Mango Girl on Thursday 29thJune at Waterstones Piccadilly from 6pm. Ava has survived and thrived against incredible odds...she's a power-house entrepreneur, founder of PurposeWalk, homelessness campaigner, and author of The Mango Girl - her true-life story of growing up in poverty in Jamaica, surviving unimaginable horrors including incest, domestic abuse and rape, and fleeing the country to raise her daughter (and later her son) here in London and forge a successful career as a business woman and creative entrepreneur. Please let us know if you'd like us to add you and a guest to the guest list.


If you can't make the London launch but would like a copy of the book or to speak further to this incredible lady about her life story we'd be happy to organise and to send you one of the new paperbacks hot off the press!

 

The book has been optioned and they're in the process of looking at starting filming in Jamaica in January 2018, and the team is in negotiations with publishers for foreign rights translation deals.

 

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ESSENTIAL DETAILS

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Title:The Mango Girl

Author:Dr Ava Brown

Genre:Memoir, Inspiration

Publisher:Filament Publishing

Publication date:29/06/17

Availability:Paperback, International distribution, eBook

ISBN:9781912256075

Price: £15

Website:http://www.avaeaglebrown.com/

Press folder:http://bit.ly/2prTm6k

Online profile:http://www.literallypr.com/public_relations/file/Dr-Ava-Brown.php

Twitter:https://twitter.com/avabrown24

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/avaeaglebrown/

 

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