This has been longlisted in this year's Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. And it's an incredible read. So moving and challenging, and gripping. I found I couldn't stop reading.

The author was in her fourth year as a medical student and walking through a shopping mall when an accident changed her life in an instant. Now she is using her experience to inform others.

Grace was 22, looking forward to her career as a hospital doctor, happy in a relationship, confident in who she was.

But a man decided to leap off the third floor of the shopping mall in which Grace had just left a friend. He landed on Grace, breaking her spine. They were both taken to hospital.

Grace is now confined to a wheelchair and this book charts those days, weeks and months as she received treatment and came to terms with her new way of living. 

She continued her medical studies and has now become a different type of doctor, one who understands what it is to receive catastrophic news, how it is to empathise and to treat a patient as an individual, acknowledging the implications of a diagnosis. And who, by sitting in a wheelchair, is received differently by colleagues, patients and visitors.

Grace has a loving family and partner, and enjoys the freedom of swimming. She writes in newspapers and magazines about the issues facing disabled people. She feels no bitterness towards the man who caused her injuries. 

This book will change your life. It's incredible. It's real and raw, but it's wise and full of hope and it asks us all to think about what we expect of life, and what we do when things don't go the way we think they should. It also asks us to think again about how we view people who are physically challenged. It's a brilliant, brilliant book. I hope you'll give it a try.