Inside & outside……life with disability
November Meetings –
Thursday 21st 5.30pm and Tuesday 26th 1pm
Recommended Read
Emma Henderson
(Grace Williams, born 1947, is a spastic and a mental defective – that's what they called her at the Briar Mental Institute, where she was sent to live when she was 11. Emma Henderson's first novel is Grace's story, suggested by the life in care of Henderson's own sister.)
Other Reads
Wonder (fiction) 20 copies
R.J. Palacio
('My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.' Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds.)
The man who mistook his wife for a hat (non-fiction) 8 copies
Oliver Sacks
(Oliver Sacks has become the world’s best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness. In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.)
A day in the life of Joe Egg (play) 14 copies
Peter Nichols
(“The content of the play - a small family in the 70s with a mentally, and physically, disabled child - does not seem that entertaining at first, yet the characters witty and amusing ways of coping with their lives really is something to witness.”)
If there’s a particular book you would like it can be ordered from any Cheshire Library or from our online catalogue. To order online you need your library card and PIN which can be given to you at any library. A reservation charge of £1 applies.
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