Lifelines: Breaking out of locked-in syndrome
Wakefield Press $24.95 pb, 159 pp, 9781862547674
Memoir
Lifelines
by Gillian Dooley •
As survival memoirs go, Lifelines is unusual in at least one respect. Peter Couche has managed to write this book over a period of thirteen years, while almost completely paralysed and unable to speak after a stroke. With the small amount of movement left in his index finger, he uses a computer to write.
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