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The warm, funny memoir of Gregor Fisher, the much loved Scottish
actor best known for Rab C. Nesbitt, told as he uncovers his
dramatic family history. Growing up in the Glasgow suburbs, Gregor
was 14 when he asked where he was christened and was told that he
was adopted. But it wasn't quite that simple. And so began an
unfolding of truths, half-truths and polite cover-ups from his
various families. In 2014 Gregor approached Times columnist Melanie
Reid to help him tell his story. Together they travelled through
the mining villages of central Scotland to uncover the mystery of
his birth and early life. What emerged was a story of secrets,
deception, tragic accidents and early death, coldness and rejection
from the very people who should have cherished him most, but a
welcome from the most unexpected of quarters. From the squalor of
industrial Coatbridge after WW1 to his own 1950s Glasgow childhood,
via a love letter found in the wallet of a dead man and meeting his
sister outside lost luggage at Glasgow Central, Gregor shares his
family story with warmth and blunt Scottish humour.
The Sunday Times Bestseller From the award-winning writer of The
Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny,
inspirational memoir 'It's beautiful - full of love and light - and
an exploration into not only how, but why we survive, despite
everything' Christie Watson, author of The Language of Kindness On
Good Friday, 2010 Melanie Reid fell from her horse, breaking her
neck and fracturing her lower back. She was 52. Paralysed from the
top of her chest down, she was to spend almost a full year in
hospital, determinedly working towards gaining as much movement in
her limbs as possible, and learning to navigate her way through a
world that had previously been invisible to her. As a journalist
Melanie had always turned to words and now, on a spinal ward
peopled by an extraordinary array of individuals who were similarly
at sea, she decided that writing would be her life-line. The World
I Fell Out Of is an account of that year, and of those that
followed. It is the untold 'back story' behind Melanie's
award-winning 'Spinal Column' in The Times Magazine and a testament
to 'the art of getting on with it'. Unflinchingly honest and
beautifully observed, this is a wise and inspiring memoir about
risk and dilemma, heroism and love . Above all, The World I Fell
Out Of is a reminder that at any moment the life we know can be
turned upside down - and a plea to start appreciating what we have
while we have it.
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