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' 'Not only a riveting account of his sudden illness, but of love being put under a real test: a heart-warming triumph' - Kazuo Ishiguro, "Sunday Times" Books of the Year. 'With its lucid heartfelt prose, "My Year Off" gives voice to the millions of people who suffer strokes ...More importantly, this book is a testament to the parallel trials and courage of the family members of stroke victims' - "New York Times" Book Review. 'Few of us can write in perfect health with the wit, skill, honesty and compassion that McCrum manages following a stroke' - Professor Anthony Clare.
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An essential, compassionate book for all stroke victims and their families, with a new introduction from the author
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This book brought to mind Lee and Bob Woodruff's book, In an Instant, but there are, of course, differences. While Bob Woodruff was disabled by a roadside bomb in Iraq, Robert McCrum was laid low by a stroke at the age of forty-two, at a time when he and his wife Sarah had only been married a couple of months. McCrum characterizes his crippling stroke as a "biological car wreck." He tells in frank terms how devastating the stroke was, leaving most of his left side paralyzed and "frozen," and how hard it was to come back from it over the next year and more. But besides enumerating all the struggles and treatments involved in being rehabilitated, he also explores the way it forced him to rethink his life and way he viewed the world. The Woodruff book was often as much a love story as it was a story of treatment and therapy. The same is true with the McCrum story. One cannot help but feel an enormous admiration for McCrum in effecting his recovery from the stroke, but I was equally moved by the unstinting devotion and love showed by his still-new bride in her tireless efforts to fix her cruelly "broken" husband. After all, she hadn't signed on in the marriage to be a nurse and caregiver, but she didn't complain. She nursed, encouraged and - most of all - loved him. This is an inspirational story, and an extremely well-written one too. Both Bob Woodruff and Robert McCrum were extremely lucky in the unkind hands that fate dealt them. They had wives who loved them, and who proved it every day. I recommend this book, MY YEAR OFF, without reservations. It's a good one. - Tim Bazzett, author of LOVE, WAR & POLIO
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A wonderful account by a man too young to have a stroke. Since my mother had a stroke a few years later it has been a great help to understand the frustratingly long recovery, but my strongest memory of this story of recovery is Robert's wife for whom it was almost harder to cope with, yet came through as central in his recovery , and is just amazing. That is how it was for me and my brother and sister in law in getting my Mum better and home again. If anyone needs an uplifting experience against adversity read this book, and then you will be fine.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Robert McCrum was a writer of national standing before his stroke, (or 'brain attack' as he calls it) so this account of his experience suffering a major stroke at the age of 42 is especially well-written. He doesn't minimise all the difficulties, the frustration, resentment and fears, and the impact on his relationship with his wife of just a few months or with his two children born after the stroke. But his story is one of hope and love, profoundly moving and ultimately inspiring.
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Aged 42 years, newly married and at the prime of his career as editor-in-chief at Faber and Faber publishers, Robert McCrum experienced a massive stroke. Read more
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I brought this book a few months ago after having a stroke last year, when I was reading it I can remember thinking so many of the same things as Robert McCrum had written in his... Read more
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