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My Year Off
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm
My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?
Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech...
Details
304 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Not only a riveting account of sudden illness, but also of love being put under a real test: a heart-warming triumphKazuo Ishiguro, Sunday Times
I have never read anything quite like this, moving and unsentimental . . . it should be prescribed reading for allBeryl Bainbridge