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I, Alison

I, Alison Reaching for a Life of My Own

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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.

About the Publisher

Gollancz

Gollancz is the oldest specialist SF & Fantasy publisher in the UK. Founded in 1927 and with a continuous SF publishing programme dating back to 1961, we are home to a galaxy of award-winning and bestselling authors. Through our long-running SF and Fantasy Masterworks programme, and major digital initiative the SF Gateway, we have one of the largest ranges of SF and Fantasy of any publisher in the world. Mission: To publish the very best authors in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, to re-present the classics of the genre to a fresh audience and to discover the stars of tomorrow. To boldly go, dare we say it, where no publisher has gone before . . .

Book information

ISBN: 9780575044760
Publisher: Gollancz
Imprint: Gollancz
Pub date:
DEWEY: 362.40924
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 156
Weight: 350g
Height: 220mm