Pages: 94
Released On: 15/09/2026
Publishing this book on October 11th, 2026-exactly two years after my accident-seemed impossible. But then again, so did surviving a coma, learning to walk again, and rebuilding my life.
May this book show you new possibilities; let it make you celebrate life and serve as a manual for navigating your own difficult situations. Because at the end of the day, you depend on you-and you’re more capable of achieving the impossible than you think.
*****
Thanks to Literally PR for the gifted copy of this title in return for an honest review.
This was a very slim book, and I understand why because it’s about an incident and the recovery, and it might have been too difficult to make it longer, which I do get, but I would have liked a bit more because I was enjoying it.
I haven’t gone through the kind of trauma that Vincent has, but I do have a neurological condition that seemed to spring out of nowhere, and it means I can’t work a “normal” full-time job, I am no longer allowed to drive, I have to have my family care for me – and it’s hard to go from normality to something like this, and it’s even harder to put it into words, so I applaud Vincent for just that. He’s managed to take what was a traumatic, life-changing and potentially life-ending incident and put it down in such beautiful prose.
He’s not sugar-coated anything. It’s vulnerable and honest and raw, and so deeply human. He could have hidden parts of his story, kept the worse bits private. But he hasn’t. He’s told us everything, good and bed, which adds to the power of the book. We’ve seen him at his best and at his worse and that makes him much more human and you can identify with him more.
It’s not the greatest memoir I’ve ever read, but I think that’s down to the length. I rarely want a book to be longer, but I think the short page length on this is at its disadvantage. If it had been longer – the bits before the accident, after the accident, or both – then I think it would have given me more time to get fully invested in his story and pulled more of a punch, and we could have seen him further along his journey. I would like to read about what he’s like now, after some time has passed. So maybe a sequel is in order.
I read it in under an hour, it’s quick to read and zooms by. It’s powerful, emotive, and very honest and human. And whilst the subject matter is negative, the tone and the hope he’s infused it with makes it uplifting.
