See It My Way - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751525472 ISBN 13: 9780751525472

Publisher: Sphere; New Ed edition (2 Mar. 2000), 1600

Synopsis

Peter White was the second blind son born to sighted parents just after the war. His education took place before the days of integrated schooling for all (for which he is extremely grateful) and he describes with honesty and humour the peculiar regimes of the special boarding schools he attended. Accepted into university he found the world outside more difficult to adapt to but, with a combination of despair and determination, forced his way into radio broadcasting and is now a senior correspondent with the BBC. He portrays his experiences without a trace of sentimentality but with humour and passion.

About this title

About the Author

Peter White is the BBC's Disabilty Affairs Correspondent and a frequent broadcaster on Radio 4 on other issues. Married with three (sighted) children, he lives in Winchester, but travels widely throughout the country

Review

As simple and no-nonsense as the man himself, See It My Way is a painfully honest autobiography written with passion and humour and sprinkled with cringe-making sarcasms and scathing observations on disability that will cut "normal" people to the quick. * Susan Harrison, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW * Peter White is a remarkable man who, as the second blind child of sighted parents, faced the horrors of special schools--the only real option in the 1950s for children like him--with stubborn independent streak which developed further as he grew into a s * From his early days with his family in the sheltered, love-filled home which instilled a confidence and security that has stayed with him throughout his life, through to the depression that dogged him at university and forced him to drop out, and his stoi * Entertaining, warm, humorous autobiography from a man with strong views who turns many misfortunes against himself in the telling. * DAILY TELEGRAPH *

Edition details

• Publisher: Sphere; New Ed edition (2 Mar. 2000)
• Publication date: 1600
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0751525472
• ISBN 13: 9780751525472
• Binding: Paperback