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The Letter by Ann Cusack, Sarah Sidebottom
LoveReading Says The Letter, Sarah Sidebottom’s moving account of the horrific sexual abuse inflicted on her by her father and brother, opens the moment said letter arrives. A decades-old document from a doctor that changed everything. In Sarah’s words, having “grown-up on the wrong side of a wall of silence”, this letter “was an atom bomb. But it was also the key to a justice I had dreamed of for almost 50 years”.
Jacket Notes | 'Unequivocal' by Jaco van Gass
My inspiration for writing Unequivocal was to tell my story in more detail, to help others who face adversity, and to show them that anything is possible even beyond your darkest days. I found it therapeutic to get my story onto paper, but it was hard to relive some of these moments and see them from the point of view of my family and friends. It was difficult to listen to the hurt my loved ones went through, especially for the other soldiers who were with me on the ground the night I got injured.
EXCERPT | 'You've lost your arm!': From battlefield to Paralympic gold, Jaco van Gass shares his story | Life
South African-born Jaco van Gass was severely wounded in the war in Afghanistan in 2009, losing his left arm. He underwent 11 surgeries and survived to become a professional athlete and adventurer. He has travelled to the North Pole, climbed Everest, participated in Prince Harry’s Invictus Games, and won a cycling gold medal at the Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020. In Unequivocal, he tells his inspirational story. In this edited excerpt, he describes the battle in Afghanistan that nearly took his life.
EXCERPT | 'You've lost your arm!': From battlefield to Paralympic gold, Jaco van Gass shares his story | Life
South African-born Jaco van Gass was severely wounded in the war in Afghanistan in 2009, losing his left arm. He underwent 11 surgeries and survived to become a professional athlete and adventurer. He has travelled to the North Pole, climbed Everest, participated in Prince Harry’s Invictus Games, and won a cycling gold medal at the Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020. In Unequivocal, he tells his inspirational story. In this edited excerpt, he describes the battle in Afghanistan that nearly took his life.
Walking With The Wounded
Last night, 7pm BST, the Walking With The Wounded Summit team and the Glenfiddich Pioneers participated in a world first … a LIVE whisky tasting from Everest base camp. The Team and the Pioneers were introduced by a London studio panel featuring presenter Monty Halls, WWTW Founders Ed Parker and Simon Daglish, Glenfiddich’s Jamie Milne and Mark Thomson from Dramatic Whisky. It was a fantastic evening, with a lot of laughs and some of Glenfiddich’s finest reserves shared by all.
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