See me rolling : on disability, equality and ten-point turns
(2024, original release: 2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/JACKSON,L

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir MEMOIR/JACKSON,L Available

Details

PUBLISHED
London : Penguin Books, 2024
©2023
DESCRIPTION

352 pages ; 20 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781529156058, 152915605X :, 152915605X, 9781529156058
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

First published in 2023

Introduction -- The art of recovery -- Love, regardless -- True north -- Role call -- Varsity dream -- Fashion-able -- A virtual reality -- The other glass ceiling

In this warm, thought-provoking and often hilarious memoir, Lottie Jackson reflects on her experiences of living with disability: from the difficulties of going shopping on a mobility scooter, to the headache of defining oneself on a tick-box form, and from the indignities of the so-called easy-pull tights aid to the intense pleasure of finally swapping a hospital gown for a slinky dress. Lottie captivatingly expresses the acute difficulties and joys of living with disability, as well as the strange everyday occurrences that abled-bodied people usually don't experience