**WINNER OF THE GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017**
Coping with your own death, when you are not yet dead, is a strange
thing... A natural on a horse since he was able to walk, and imbued
with a pure love of riding, Declan Murphy became one of the most
brilliant jockeys of his generation before his world came crashing
down at the final hurdle of a race at Haydock Park. His skull
shattered in twelve places, he was believed to be dead, the last
rites were read and the Racing Post prepared his obituary.
Miraculously, and the word is not used lightly, he survived and
defied medical thinking in recovering to the extent that eighteen
months after his fall, he was able to saddle up for one more race.
As usual, he won. For 23 years, Declan has been unable to tell his
story, to bring to words existence on the frontier between life and
death, to describe the incredible bond between man and horse. But
now, in an extraordinary collaboration with Ami Rao, she has helped
him find those words, a way to piece together what happened before,
during and after, what it all meant and what it means to us all. It
is a story of triumph, fear, love and loss, by turns primal,
heartbreaking and inspirational, and ultimately, it is the story of
hope, and of life.
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