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In this memoir, Emmett de Monterey tells us what it was like growing up as a disabled queer kid in 1980s London. We travel through his diagnosis with cerebral palsy, and his understanding and acceptance of being gay; the behaviour and attitudes of others in the brutal 1980s and 90s. Watch clips from the podcast >> Youtube | The Emma Guns ShowSign up for my newsletter here >> Newsletter. Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement. 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.

When he was eighteen months old he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy which, up till then, was a condition his young, bohemian parents had never heard of. Although I have not had such prejudice directed at me, my sister, who also has cerebral palsy, did and has had to deal with it all her life. Still, there are frequent moments of insight, deftly and succinctly captured: “What I didn’t see until much later, when I was no longer the only person with cerebral palsy I knew, is that there are as many ways to be disabled as there are to be alive. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. Wider creative team: Mary Forrest, Clare Wright, Gemma Sherlock, Helen Gamble-Shields, Kathleen Javalla, Caroline MacPake, Evangelia Vasiliadou.With liberal artist parents what em faces is a life with problems many would not consider, but his strength and determination sees him building a better future. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. For younger bookworms – and nostalgic older ones too – there’s the Slightly Foxed Cubs series, in which we’ve reissued a number of classic nature and historical novels.

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.He talks about everything from what it was to have the cameras etc follow him around both before and just after what was suppose to be a life-alternating surgery, his relationship with his grandmother in the UK and his grandfather in the USA, what it meant for him to have to change school because the place that he gotten into wouldn't accommodate his needs, to coming to the slow realization that he's not just disabled, he's gay. 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”. Lambert added: “This is memoir at its best: exquisite prose coupled with a story that is profound, often heartbreaking but also funny, wise and wonderfully well observed.