Beyond the High Blue Air - A Memoir

Lu Spinney was born in Cape Town and spent her childhood on a farm in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, later moving with her family to the Indian Ocean coast north of Durban. After university, she left South Africa to live in Nice and Paris, before settling in London.

About the author

Lu Spinney was born in Cape Town and spent her childhood on a farm in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, later moving with her family to the Indian Ocean coast north of Durban. After university, she left South Africa to live in Nice and Paris, before settling in London.

Summary

Aged 29, Lu Spinney's son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following her son Miles's accident, revealing his existence imprisoned in a limbo of fluctuating consciousness, at times agonizingly aware of his predicament.
With unfailing honesty and courageous prose, Lu Spinney's memoir explores the very nature of self and the anguish of witnessing Miles's suffering as she and her family come to realise that, although he has been saved from death, he has not been brought back to a meaningful life.

Foreword

This searingly honest, beautifully crafted memoir is a testament to the fierce power of maternal love.

Product details

• Authors: Lu Spinney, Lu (Author) Spinney, Spinney Lu
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.2017
• EAN: 9781782398899
• ISBN: 978-1-78239-889-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 225 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Medicine: general issues, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, MEDICAL / Neuroscience, MEDICAL / Neurology, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, Family & health, Neurosciences, Ethics and moral philosophy, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Ethical issues & debates, Parenting: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Gender studies: women and girls, Coping with death and bereavement, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Sociology: death and dying