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Love & Justice

A Compelling True Story of Triumph Over Tragedy

Diana Morgan-Hill author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Blackbird Digital Books

Published:23rd Apr '15

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Within days of publication this author's story was a front page Daily Mail story. She appears on ITV News and ITV's This Morning with Phillip Schofield and Amanda Holden. She has several local radio and library appearances lined up, Irish daytime TV and a half-hour interview on BBC Radio 5 Live. Motivational speaking engagements, literary festival engagements, and more.Ongoing promotion in 2015.

At the age of 29, Diana Hill fell under a London train. In 7 seconds the tall, glamorous businesswoman went from busy woman of the world with everything to live for to double-leg-amputee, her life in ruins. The issues surrounding sexuality and disability are explored as she revisits the courtroom dramas and her complicated love life.At the age of 29, Diana Hill fell under a London train. In 7 seconds the tall, glamorous businesswoman went from busy woman of the world with everything to live for to double-leg amputee, her life in ruins. Then it got worse. A few days after her accident, as she lay in hospital, traumatised and heavily sedated, she learnt via a newspaper article that the railway's Transport Police were to interview "The Fall Girl", as the Press had labelled her, with a view to prosecution. She had boarded a moving train, they said, and trespassed onto their railway line. Her fight for justice took five years and was, she declares with no hesitation, a more harrowing experience than having both of her legs 'stolen' from her. As any young, single woman would be, Diana was shocked to the core by the sudden, catastrophic change in her body image. What man would ever love her now? The issues surrounding sexuality, amputation and disability are explored here with stark honesty as she recalls her complicated love life, the High Court dramas, and the rawness of her pain amidst a turmoil of emotion, all told with tremendous humour, charm and heart. For Diana loves to tell stories. Especially true ones. A brutally honest, heartwarming memoir that shocks and delights in equal measure - when you're not crying for her you're laughing with her

"A compelling story of how humour, friendship, grace and sheer grit can triumph over unthinkable catastrophe. Diana Morgan-Hill's unflinching memoir is proof that what does not kill us makes us strong." Liz Jensen, author of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

ISBN: 9780993092237

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: 344g

230 pages