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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with disability
At the age of 29, Diana Hill fell under a London train. In 7
seconds the tall, glamorous businesswoman went from busy woman of
the world with everything to live for to double-leg amputee, her
life in ruins. Then it got worse. A few days after her accident, as
she lay in hospital, traumatised and heavily sedated, she learnt
via a newspaper article that the railway's Transport Police were to
interview "The Fall Girl", as the Press had labelled her, with a
view to prosecution. She had boarded a moving train, they said, and
trespassed onto their railway line. Her fight for justice took five
years and was, she declares with no hesitation, a more harrowing
experience than having both of her legs 'stolen' from her. As any
young, single woman would be, Diana was shocked to the core by the
sudden, catastrophic change in her body image. What man would ever
love her now? The issues surrounding sexuality, amputation and
disability are explored here with stark honesty as she recalls her
complicated love life, the High Court dramas, and the rawness of
her pain amidst a turmoil of emotion, all told with tremendous
humour, charm and heart. For Diana loves to tell stories.
Especially true ones. A brutally honest, heartwarming memoir that
shocks and delights in equal measure - when you're not crying for
her you're laughing with her
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The Upside
(Paperback)
Abdel Sellou
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R282
R131
Discovery Miles 1 310
Save R151 (54%)
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The story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the
caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralyzed French
aristocrat) inspired the award-winning French movie Les
Intouchables (2012), which became an international phenomenon and
broke records as one of the most successful French movies of all
time. Now, The Upside, the American remake of Les Intouchables,
starring Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, and Nicole Kidman will be
released in both the US and the UK in January 2019. Abdel Sellou
and Philippe Pozzo di Borgo were two people marginalized by
society: Sellou a wisecracking, unemployed immigrant, just out on
parole; Pozzo a man born to wealth and privilege, recently
paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident. How they
came to help each other, and the unlikely friendship that became a
lifeline for them both, is an uplifting story that's now been told
and retold around the world.
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