Go the Way Your Blood Beats
$25.14
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2024
Summary
A beautiful, powerful memoir about being born with cerebral palsy and exploring the reality of growing up gay and disabled in 1980s London.
When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too big for his 25-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby. Growing up in South East London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his school for disabled children, he’s told he will be expelled if th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241995785 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241995787 |
| Author: | Emmett de Monterey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
Vivid, engaging… this insightful memoir sheds light on the author’s life as a disabled gay man who is often rendered invisible – Andrew McMillan * Guardian *
A frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible clear-eyed intensity * Claire Fuller *
The magic of Emmett De Monterey’s book is its disarming accessibility. Compulsive reading, unique, this beautifully crafted work is suffused with depth, affection, and remarkable observations. De Monterey is a profoundly gifted writer. * Charlotte Fox Weber *
Exploring the reality of growing up gay and disabled in 1980s London, this beautiful memoir is as uplifting as it is devastating, and as funny and wise as it is profound. * iNews *
Astonishing, illuminating and enriching. * Matt Cain *
There is a tension, brilliantly evoked throughout, in the paradoxically hyper-visible but invisible disabled body and how it relates to notions of being “out”. * The Guardian *
About The Author
Emmett de Monterey
Emmett de Monterey is a trained psychotherapist. He lives in London with his husband and their dog. Go the Way Your Blood Beats is his first book.
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