I am the author of Down But Not Out: The First 25 Years; a new book published on April 30th 2015. This book is the story of our family. Our son Alex, has Down’s syndrome. It starts from our early years, the struggle my husband and I had to become pregnant, to Alex’s birth, childhood and adulthood. I want you to get to know Alex, celebrate his achievements with him and share our family’s distress at his setbacks. Throughout, I hope you feel and enjoy the love that our family have for him, a love made all the more poignant by Alex’s simple, accepting and loving nature.
This book is available to order from Amazon, Waterstones and Nielsens.
- ISBN-10: 1848975880
- ISBN-13: 978-1848975897
Dr.W.J.Marshall’s comments:
“No one could fail to be moved by this book, but it is more than one family story: it offers hope to all with a Down’s child. It offers insights into how hurtful those of us with no experience of the condition can be, however unwittingly. It shows how parents and siblings can cope with the prejudice directed against people who look different that is still regrettably pervasive today. It should force us to look at ourselves: Alex is a happy being, with apparently no insight into his condition. It is us who look on people with Down’s syndrome as being different.
Families of people with Down’s will be inspired and comforted in reading this book, but it has messages for all of us, and deserves to be widely read.”