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Getting to know the Author.
What are your first memories of reading? I have found memories in national school of the travelling library bus coming to update the library book shelves in each class in my wonderful primary school, St. Peters National school, throughout the year. We were allowed buy...
Thank you.
Thank you to everyone for reading, it means a lot to me. I want to discuss A few reasons why I decided to write this book and what i hoped to achieve in doing so. I started writing awhile after my injury, at first for therapeutic reasons and later I set up an...
Why we should encourage our youth to keep reading books.
In an increasingly digital world, it’s crucial for us to keep reading books. Losing yourself in a book is the ultimate relaxation and with so many distractions and other forms of entertainment vying for people’s attention, the importance of reading with children has...
An excerpt from my second book
Throughout history, hope has been viewed favourably, as virtually essential to our welfare. True, many writers have inveighed against “false hope.” But it’s generally been perceived as a positive, almost essential, motivating force. And in any case, it seems...
In 2013, while out for a routine cycle, Geraldine Lavelle’s life changed in an instant when she was involved in an horrific road accident. The Castlebar woman suffered a spinal cord injury that left three-quarters of her body paralysed. Overnight, Geraldine had to adapt from being an independent, physically-active young woman to a new world where she required assistance to perform the most basic tasks.
Weathering The Storm is Geraldine’s honest and inspirational account of her journey over the last nine years – from those dark, bleak early days when she struggled to accept the cruel fate visited upon her to her emergence as a powerful and articulate voice for people with disabilities in Ireland. This is a story of resilience, a story of a courageous young woman’s determination to survive the harshest of life’s storms. Castlebar native Geraldine Lavelle holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters in Neuroscience from NUI Galway. Since acquiring her disability, she has worked at Abbott Diagnostics, lectured in health science and physiology at IT Sligo and qualified as a special needs assistant. She is also a passionate advocate for people living with disabilities and has contributed regular articles to the Western People, Sligo Champion and several national media outlets.
https://www.mayobooks.ie/Weathering-the-Storm-Geraldine-Lavelle