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Grace Under Pressure: Going the distance as an Aspergers mum - Softcover

Walker, Sophie

 
9780749958268: Grace Under Pressure: Going the distance as an Aspergers mum
Softcover
ISBN 10: 074995826X ISBN 13: 9780749958268
Verlag: Piatkus, 2012

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Based on the success of her popular and moving blog, 'Grace Under Pressure' (www.courage-is.blogspot.com), Sophie Walker writes brilliantly about the highs and lows of parenting a child with Aspergers and how she took up running to help her cope.

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Sophie Walker has worked as a journalist for Reuters news agency since 1997, reporting news around the globe. She has written about oil, trade and politics in Washington and has been foreign correspondent in the UK, travelling to Iraq and Afghanistan with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

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'I sometimes wonder if Grace's fragility is inherited from me rather than her diagnosis: whether I am the culprit for the blue vein of vulnerability she displays so clearly beneath her skin. I am running and running now, three or four times a week . . . letting me work off my worries instead of numbing them with pharmaceuticals. But still, there are days when emotional overload hits . . . I find it so hard to bear the travails of my daughter. I love my daughter so much that it can render me incapable and thick-headed.'

When Sophie Walker's daughter Grace was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, her world unravelled. Watching her daughter struggle to navigate a world she didn't fit into left Sophie teary, sleepless and depressed. One day she decided to start running, in order to get better, and set herself the challenge of completing the London Marathon to raise awareness of Asperger Syndrome and make herself physically strong enough to support her beloved, courageous child.

With extraordinary frankness, Sophie Walker shares the daily highs and lows of raising a child with Asperger's and the challenge of becoming a long distance runner.Moving and hugely inspirational, Grace Under Pressure shows that strength can be found and in unexpected places.

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Verlag
Piatkus
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
074995826X
ISBN 13 
9780749958268
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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