The World I Fell Out Of: The Inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller

A step-by-step account of what it is like to break your neck. From topfit to paralyzed in seconds. It helps me not to take my health for granted and to know more about the less fortunate and how to approach them

Inspirational. Warts and all, Melanie tells us the story of her paralysis as it is, touching on all the mental agony and anger her situation throws her into. Her final acceptance that there is a life to be enjoyed when acceptance of her situation and its continuing slight changes has been made is humbling. As she says, every spinal injury is different and individual, but reading this book may help some sufferers. It certainly helped this able bodied lady to understand all the trauma tetraplegic people have to overcome. I salute you, Melanie Reid!

The message I took from this book is to be thankful for the life you have, which means most to the able-bodied of us of course. If things in our life are not as we wish them to be, perhaps we can learn to be happy enough despite this.

I really “enjoyed” this book. I was awed by Melanie’s courage and experiences and laughed and cried often. I highly recommend it.

.....and I have read an awful lot. I read this book with trepidation not merely because of the subject matter but I fet that it may be a lttle self-pitying. This was not the case, the prose is sublime easy to read and heartfelt. I was there with Melanie throughout her whole sad experience and the love and care people showed her was amazing. When she got back on a horse with such grit and determination my heart was in my mouth - I know it didn't end well but the courage she showed throughout her whole incarceration was breathtaking. She shed a lot of tears but her strength of character was second to none and I will continue to read Spinal Column with a greater insight into her accident and recovery. Thank you for writing such a wonderful book.