I, Alison: Reaching for a Life of My Own

by Alison French (Author), Alison French (Author), Veronica Groocock (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $4.90

  This is the autobiography of Alison French who overcame her disability in order to enjoy an active life. Alison was born with athetoid cerebral palsy - a condition which keeps her body in constant motion and affects her co-ordination and speech. This book describes Alison's struggle to overcome her disability and confound all the sceptics by achieving her ambition to become a qualified youth worker. Alison is now married to a Welsh rugby-playing curate. Alison French has been the subject of BBC TV's Forty Minutes programme on two separate occassions, has appeared on the Wogan show and has featured in a number of magazine and newspaper articles.