Recovery has involved a lot of rehab, a lot of patience, serious frustration and more swallowing practice than I ever imagined possible. There have also been some genuinely funny moments, usually when absolutely nothing was going to plan.

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I wrote Glass Slippers & Walking Sticks because I wanted to make sense of what had happened to me, but also because I wanted to hear from someone else who had actually been through it. I didn’t want a medical textbook, a misery memoir or somebody telling me that everything happens for a reason.

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I wanted to know what life after a stroke can actually be like; the difficult bits, the things that help, the things that don’t, and how you work out who you are when your life has changed rather dramatically.​ I couldn’t find quite what I was looking for, so I decided to write it myself. ​

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