~ Hardcover
~ Winner of the Saltire Society Literary Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year - 2019
On Good Friday, 2010 Melanie Reid fell from her horse, breaking her neck and fracturing her lower back. Paralyzed from the top of her chest down, she was to spend almost a full year in hospital, determinedly working towards gaining as much movement in her limbs as possible, and learning to navigate her way through a world that had previously been invisible to her . . .
Unflinchingly honest and beautifully observed, The World I Fell Out Of is a memoir about the joy (and the risks) of riding horses, the complicated nature of heroism, the bonds of family, the comfort of strangers, and above all, a reminder that at any moment the life we know can be turned upside down.