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Diving into Glass

Caro Llewellyn

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HAMISH HAMILTON
05 March 2019
Caro Llewellyn was living her dream life in her adopted home of New York, directing an international literary festival. Then one day, running in Central Park, she lost all sensation in her legs. Two days later she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Caro was no stranger to tragedy. Her father Richard contracted polio at the age of twenty and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Dignified, undaunted and ingenious, he was determined to make every day count, not least seducing his nurse while still confined to an iron lung, then marrying her.

But when Caro was herself blindsided by illness, cut loose from everything she depended on, she couldn't summon any of the grace and courage she'd witnessed growing up. She was furious, toxic, humiliated. Only by looking back at her father's extraordinary example was she able to rediscover her own grit and find a way forward, rebuilding her life shard by shard.

An emotionally brutal memoir of family, vulnerability and purpose, Diving into Glass is a searing, often funny portrait of the realities of disability and an intimate account of two lives filled with vigour and audacity.

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Imprint:   HAMISH HAMILTON
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 232mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9780143793786
ISBN 10:   0143793780
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Caro Llewellyn is the author of three previous works of non-fiction. She is the former director of several large-scale literary festivals and cultural events. She has hosted writers from every corner of the globe, including a number of Nobel Prize winners, and presented events at the Sydney Opera House, London?s Southbank, the Louvre, and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Town Hall, 92Y and the historic Cooper Union. She is currently a director at Museums Victoria. Diving Into Glass is her first work of autobiography.

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