Driving Forwards is a memoir by Sophie Morgan, a young woman who became paralyzed from the chest down at the age of eighteen. The book details her journey of recovery, relationships, and search for love, acceptance, meaning, identity, and purpose. It is described as raw, life-affirming, and gorgeously written, inspiring readers to see how adversity can be channelled into opportunity and how ongoing resilience can lead to empowerment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Driving Forwards

is a remarkable and powerful memoir that tells the story of Sophie Morgan's life-changing injury, recovery, and life since. It is strikingly honest, relatable, inspiring, and filled with extraordinary honesty, courage, and warmth.

Sophie Morgan

is the epitome of grit and determination. Her writing is thought-provoking, honest, and in parts hilarious.

Katie Piper OBE

describes the book as "wrenchingly honest, eye-opening, and deeply moving."

Mail on Sunday

has featured the book in its Living Wild series, as well as on

Living Wild

,

How to Change your Life

,

Loose Women

, and

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C

.

Sophie Morgan

was eighteen when she crashed her car and was instantly paralyzed from the chest down. She was rushed to the hospital, and everything she had dreamed of for her life was instantly forgotten. Her journey to rediscover herself and build a different life began.

Over the next eighteen years

, she strived to come to terms with the change in her body, her relationships were put to the test, she had to learn to cope with the many unexpected and unpredictable setbacks of living with paralysis, she had to overcome her own and other people's perceptions of disability, and explore the limits of her abilities, all whilst searching for love, acceptance, meaning, identity, and purpose.

Driving Forwards

is a remarkable and powerful memoir that details Sophie's life-changing injury, recovery, and life since. It is strikingly honest, relatable, inspiring, and filled with extraordinary honesty, courage, and warmth.

Raw, life affirming, and gorgeously written

- this book is filled with extraordinary honesty, courage, and warmth. Sophie's words .

Driving Forwards

is a remarkable and powerful memoir that tells the story of Sophie Morgan's life-changing injury, recovery, and life since. It is strikingly honest, relatable, inspiring, and filled with extraordinary honesty, courage, and warmth.

Sophie Morgan

is the epitome of grit and determination. Her writing is thought-provoking, honest, and in parts hilarious.

Katie Piper OBE

describes the book as "wrenchingly honest, eye-opening, and deeply moving."

Mail on Sunday

has featured the book in its Living Wild series, as well as on

Living Wild

,

How to Change your Life

,

Loose Women

, and

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C

.

Sophie Morgan

was eighteen when she crashed her car and was instantly paralyzed from the chest down. She was rushed to the hospital, and everything she had dreamed of for her life was instantly forgotten. Her journey to rediscover herself and build a different life began.

Over the next eighteen years

, she strived to come to terms with the change in her body, her relationships were put to the test, she had to learn to cope with the many unexpected and unpredictable setbacks of living with paralysis, she had to overcome her own and other people's perceptions of disability, and explore the limits of her abilities, all whilst searching for love, acceptance, meaning, identity, and purpose.

Driving Forwards

is a remarkable and powerful memoir that details Sophie's life-changing injury, recovery, and life since. It is strikingly honest, relatable, inspiring, and filled with extraordinary honesty, courage, and warmth.

Raw, life affirming, and gorgeously written

- this book is filled with extraordinary honesty, courage, and warmth. Sophie's words .

Weight: 240g
Dimension: 127 x 199 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780751582222