Book Reviews – Second Chances

Second Chances by Hayley Holt

We’ve all seen Hayley Holt on our television screens over the years – Dancing With The Stars, Treasure Island, Shock Treatment, Crowd Goes Wild, TVNZ Breakfast, and currently TVNZ News Sports. In her early forties, she’s packed in a lot of living. At the age of seven, she started ballroom and Latin dancing and then got seriously into snowboarding. Holt seemed outgoing and confident but her reality was that she was introverted and alcohol became the key to her fitting in. The loss of her first baby has been widely reported but in this memoir she is so open and raw about that devastating loss, the love she has found with her partner Josh, and the support from her family and close friends. This was an easy read and it was interesting to learn about the person behind the famous face.