Go the Way Your Blood Beats

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But the 'miracle' doesn't occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. De Monterey, who is a trained psychotherapist, commented: “Writing this book has been a wonderful, rewarding experience. Much of the book’s emotional weight comes from the way in which the world built in the family home, or with friends and peers, is constantly thrown up against reductive and violent language from outside institutions: the medical establishment, the education system, the church, members of the public who stare or infantilise. At aged 12, Emmett was selected to undergo a revolutionary gait surgery in America and was the subject of national media attention. To them I was the boy on the telly who’d flown to America to get fixed, so they saw me as rejecting them as a disabled community because I’d tried to ‘fix’ myself.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Viking has landed debut author Emmett de Monterey’s “beautiful, powerful” memoir Go the Way Your Blood Beats following an exclusive submission. To become a subscriber to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine, please visit our subscriptions page. At his Sixth Form College for disabled students, he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he's gay.

Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. During our time together Kierra shared her life lessons learned from a difficult, unstable childhood, navigating the business world as an young, black female entrepreneur and how her business and business partner taught her how to trust. Overall this is a book written with a deep understanding of what it is to be human and to deal with limitations (especially other peoples) with grace. Such a beautifully written and powerful book which could have been shockingly depressing but you are gently guided through this young man's traumatic life sensitively. I really appreciated how he considered his CP through his individual experiences as well as through the social vs medical models of disability, showing that self-hatred doesn’t form in a vacuum.

Compulsive reading, unique, this beautifully crafted work is suffused with depth, affection, and remarkable observations. Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church.Emmett in no way regrets the surgery – he says he wouldn’t be walking as well as he is today without it – but the experience was exhausting and emotionally draining for both him and his parents.

I’m never sure which are mine and which I’ve seen on TV,” he says after having revolutionary new surgery in the US. Growing up in southeast London in the 1980s, de Monterey is spat at on the street and prayed over at church.I find it makes me both sad, and incredibly angry that anyone can have thoughts such as these, let alone voice them out loud, in the age in which we live. The writing is consistent, heartbreaking and gripping and I found myself completely hooked from the first few pages. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking an authentic and heartfelt story that will stay with them long after they turn the final page. Looking back at it in midlife I can see how much I’d internalised that ableism and the prejudices that I was experiencing in wider society.

Growing up in South East London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. But the miracle doesn’t occur, and he must reckon with a world that views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. Newspaper reporters, photographers and cameramen turned up to catch a glimpse of his “miracle” cure, but instead they saw a small boy – still recovering – using a “big walker”. I was earmarked immediately as something that was dangerously different in that environment and that was really difficult. The publisher explained: “When Emmett de Monterey is 18 months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy.Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement. At his school for disabled children, he is told he will be expelled if the rumours are true—if he's gay.