| A Will to Win 'I walk slowly to the car, wishing with all my heart I could run. If I did not have rheumatoid arthritis I would be skipping across the park, screaming at everyone that I got a First at university. Well, I cannot run, but my heart skips instead.' At 18 Alice Peterson was one of Britain's top junior tennis players and set to go to America on a tennis scholarship. But overnight her dreams were shattered when she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. With wit, pace and candour Alice writes about her tennis-mad childhood and her battle with RA. She vividly describes the conflict between wanting to lead a teenager's life and suffereing the ageing symptoms of a degenerative disease. A Will to Win is an uplifting, humourous and heart-warming story, that is absolutely unputdownable. A Will to Win is dedicated to Alice's mother and father. 'I have just finished reading your wonderful book and wanted to write to say how truly amazing & brave & beautiful it is.' Bear Grylls, bestselling author of Facing Up, Everest Mountaineer and International speaker Pan Macmillan, May 10 2002 £6.99 amazon.co.uk |
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