I, Alison

This is the autobiography of Alison French who overcame her disability in order to enjoy an active life. Alison was born with athetoid cerebral palsy - a condition which keeps her body in constant motion and affects her co-ordination and speech. This book describes Alison's struggle to overcome her disability and confound all the sceptics by achieving her ambition to become a qualified youth worker. Alison is now married to a Welsh rugby-playing curate. Alison French has been the subject of BBC TV's Forty Minutes programme on two separate occassions, has appeared on the Wogan show and has featured in a number of magazine and newspaper articles.