Publisher's Synopsis
This is the story of a woman who is determined to break down the barriers between the disabled and able-bodied. Alison has athetoid cerebral palsy, a condition which keeps her body in constant motion and affects her co-ordination and speech. Her parents were told she would never walk or talk. Nobody ever believed that she would lead an independent life.;But nobody had reckoned on Alison's fiery, fighting spirit. Her extermely positive and self-aware personality thrives on each fresh challenge that comes her way. She has succeeded in confounding the Jeremiahs, living her life to the full via a series of major landmarks and turning points: learning to drive, getting her own flat and landing her first job. Then, in 1987, she married Mark John, an ebullient Welsh curate.