Never Say Die

Informationen zum Autor At the age of fifteen Melanie Davies was involved in a motorcycle accident that left her paralysed from the chest down. Since then her life has never been the same, and in the years that followed she endured a huge amount of pain and suffering. However, she has also, against all odds, won medals in athletics for her country, raised thousands of pounds for charity and set up her own rehabilitation charity. Lynne Barrett-Lee was born in London and became a full time writer shortly after moving to Cardiff in 1994. She is the author of seven novels. She is a regular guest broadcaster on BBC Radio Wales and also writes a popular weekly column for the Western Mail Newspaper's Saturday Magazine. Klappentext On a Saturday morning in May 1980, Melanie Bowen, a pretty fifteen year old, ran down the stairs of her parents' home in Port Talbot, grabbed her leather jacket and crash helmet, yelled a goodbye, and then walked out of the front door into the sunshine for what was to be the last time in her life. Never Say Die is the true story of what followed...

Product details

• Authors: Lynne Barrett-Lee, Barrett-Lee Lynne, Melanie Davies, Melanie Barrett-Lee Davies
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.11.2009
• EAN: 9780007317523
• ISBN: 978-0-00-731752-3
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Medical counselling, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / People with Disabilities, Trauma & shock, Pain & pain management, Autobiography: sport, Coping with disability, Rehabilitation: brain & spinal injuries, Trauma and shock, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Disability: social aspects, Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients), Coping with / advice about breast cancer