Greystone Books The world i fell into: what breaking my neck taught me about life, paperback/melanie reid

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A BESTSELLER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Perceptive--and lacerating--about the pressures felt by disabled people to be cured .

A plea to those with well-functioning bodies to be aware of what they have.

-- Sunday Times Melanie Reid was fifty-two years old when she fell from her horse, broke her neck, and was paralyzed from the chest down.

In an instant, her life changed forever.

In The World I Fell Into , Melanie describes how she spent nearly one year in the hospital, working toward gaining as much movement in her body as possible, and learning to navigate her way through a world that had previously been invisible to her.

As a journalist, she had always turned to words.

As a quadriplegic person, her mind was still working: she could speak, record her voice, and use a laptop with one finger.

Writing would be her lifeline.

Melanie writes about disability, recovery, trauma, and relationships with both a generous spirit, frank honesty, and an irreverent sense of humor.

Above all, she offers an authentic message of hope: The World I Fell Into reminds us to practice gratitude for what we have, right now, for the world can change in a moment's notice.

About author(s): Melanie Reid is an award-winning British journalist and a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

She writes the weekly Spinal Column for the Times Saturday Magazine (UK) about her life as a disabled person.

Melanie lives in Stirlingshire, Scotland.