{"product_id":"9780007354283","title":"In My Dreams I Dance by Anne Wafula Strike","description":"FOR NEW 2024 EDITION SEE 9780008703011                      The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike                     Struck down with polio at the age of two and a half, Anne overcame the prejudice rife in her native village in Kenya, where neighbours believed she was cursed and called her a snake because of her disability, which left her paralysed below the waist.             Losing her mother at a tender age, and sent to a school far away from home, she achieved fantastic academic results, amidst the challenges of a military coup. She went to university and qualified as a teacher, and fell in love with a British man who truly valued her defiant spirit.             She moved from a world with no running water to make a life for herself in modern Britain. Where, against all odds, she bore a child, and went on to being the first East African to compete in her sport internationally. Anne is currently in further training, hoping to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Paralympics.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56220347367797,"sku":"9780007354283","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780007354283.jpg?v=1762187542","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780007354283","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}