My Life In Their Hands by Stephen Gallagher

My Life In Their Hands by Stephen Gallagher

Stephen Gallagher was born in June 1962. At six months old, he caught gastroenteritis. Most children make a complete recovery, but Stephen was one of the rare and unlucky ones who went on to develop viral encephalitis. It took away his ability to move and communicate before he'd even had chance to learn how to walk or talk. Non-verbal throughout his life, Stephen has fought for years to find his voice. This is his story. 'When I look at other people's disabilities I think, my God, how lucky I am.' Stephen Gallagher. 'All I know about my son is he's educable.' Tommy Gallagher, Stephen's dad. 'They asked me, "How do you know what he knows?" And I said, "I just do".' Joan Gallagher, Stephen's mum. 'For a guy who can't walk, talk, feed himself or go to the bathroom himself, Stephen has done a lot of amazing stuff: from being awarded the Cornwell Badge (the Scouting VC) to going camping, hiking, canoeing and even abseiling with the Scouts. But surely the most amazing thing he did was to go from being "that bloke in the wheelchair" to being Stephen, everyone's friend, and I for one am very proud to call him mine.' Brian Heeley, Stephen's friend.

Gallagher, Stephen: - Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominee, winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild Awards for his genre fiction, Stephen Gallagher has built parallel careers as a novelist and as a creator of primetime miniseries and episodic television. In his review of Gallagher's breakthrough novel Valley of Lights, Neil Gaiman wrote, Gripping, suspenseful and tight - I enjoyed it immensely. In his native England he's adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas that include the landmark ITV miniseries Chimera. In the US he was lead writer on NBC's Crusoe, creator of CBS Television's Eleventh Hour, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's The Forgotten. His fifteen novels include Down River, Oktober, and Nightmare, with Angel. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of historical crime novels comprising The Kingdom of Bones, The Bedlam Detective, and now The Authentic William James. Recent screen credits include an award-winning Silent Witness and Stan Lee's Lucky Man. He lives in a former weavers' cottage in England's Ribble Valley and attributes his Twitter following to his TV scripts for Doctor Who.

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ISBN 13	9781839452680
ISBN 10	1839452684
Title	My Life In Their Hands
Author	Stephen Gallagher
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	FeedARead.com
Year published	2020-05-08
Number of pages	158
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