I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking an authentic and heartfelt story that will stay with them long after they turn the final page.

It was that enforced invisibility that made Emmett want to share his story in his own words – to reclaim his own narrative years after tabloids cast their own agenda onto his narrative. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. The more we can amplify positive stories and the more we can amplify diverse narratives – I think that’s all to the good. The independent-minded quarterly magazine that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. It's 1st January, which means you're probably being bombarded with lots of 'new year, new you' messaging and potentially feeling as though there's something about yourself you need to change or improve upon.As a child, he found himself plastered all over the tabloids – and the subject of a BBC documentary – when he was signed up for a pioneering surgical procedure in the United States that was supposed to improve his walk. At his school for disabled children, he is told he will be expelled if the rumours are true—if he's gay. This felt like a really important conversation about the complex issues about weight, body shape, size and everything that goes hand-in-hand with complex and toxic relationships with and around food. The writing is consistent, heartbreaking and gripping and I found myself completely hooked from the first few pages.

Laura has interrogated her relationship with her own body and food issues in her book Diet Starts Monday, but also takes a closer look at the ways in which diet culture and anti-fat bias seep into our consciousness and make us feel less than. Emmett de Monterey hat in diesem Memoir erzählt, wie es war als körperlich behindertes, queeres Kind in London der 1980er aufzuwachsen. For younger bookworms – and nostalgic older ones too – there’s the Slightly Foxed Cubs series, in which we’ve reissued a number of classic nature and historical novels. In conclusion, this is a deeply moving and thought-provoking memoir that explores the intersections of disability and sexuality. You could almost see the journalists going, ‘This is not what we were led to expect from the rhetoric around this process’,” he says.Even though he was still just a child, he also had to come to terms with the fact that many in the disabled community were not best pleased by his documentary and media coverage.