I, Alison: Reaching for a Life of My Own

by Alison French (Author), VeronicaGroocock (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.40

  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.

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  Paperback
  1991

  $6.31

  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.