Description
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 great 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 by a combination of despair and determination he 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. This is not a book for the politically correct, but will leave its readers with a sense of purpose and achievement.
* BBC Radio 4 reading scheduled to coincide with publication * Ad campaign in the SPECTATOR and DAILY TELEGRAPH * Widespread author PR activity to include media interviews and appearances at events and literary festivals throughout the year * Review and feature coverage * Reading copies available
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
Reviews
Entertaining, warm, humorous autobiography from a man with strong views who turns many misfortunes against himself in the telling. * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
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 *
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780751525472
Author Peter White
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Sphere
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
* BBC Radio 4 reading scheduled to coincide with publication * Ad campaign in the SPECTATOR and DAILY TELEGRAPH * Widespread author PR activity to include media interviews and appearances at events and literary festivals throughout the year * Review and feature coverage * Reading copies available
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
Reviews
Entertaining, warm, humorous autobiography from a man with strong views who turns many misfortunes against himself in the telling. * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
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 *
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780751525472
Author Peter White
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Sphere
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
