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A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKQuestion: What''s worse than being in a wheelchair?Answer: Being a fuck-up in a wheelchair.After a car accident Jarred discovers he''ll never walk again. Confined to a ''giant roller-skate'', he finds himself with neither money nor job. Worse still, he''s forced to live back home with the father he hasn''t spoken to in ten years.Add in a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and the fact that total strangers now treat him like he''s an idiot, it''s a recipe for self-destruction. How can he stop himself careering out of control?As he tries to piece his life together again, he looks back over his past - the tragedy that blasted his family apart, why he ran away, the damage he''s caused himself and others - and starts to wonder whether, maybe, things don''t always have to stay broken after all.The Coward is about hurt and forgiveness. It''s about how the wo

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A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKAfter a car accident Jarred discovers he'll never walk again. Confined to a 'giant roller-skate', he finds himself with neither money nor job, a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and strangers treating him like he's an idiot. Worse still, he's forced to live back home with his estranged father.Trying to piece himself together, Jarred comes to realise that things don't have to stay broken after all. The Coward is about hurt and forgiveness, how the world treats disabled people, and how we write and rewrite the stories we tell ourselves about our lives - and try to find a happy ending.

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Hinterland is a quarterly magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Each issue features a stellar line-up of writing talent from around the globe: stories by established, best-selling authors as well as a host of exciting new writers making their publishing debut. Much of the writing in our latest issue relates to the body. Whether it’s addiction, illness or a coming-of-age awareness of desire, the authors featured explore how bodies can be afflicted and affected in many different ways. And in light of the recent Covid pandemic, reflections around life and mortality are inevitable, from parental time-travel through a child’s life by Jarred McGinnis (The Coward), to grief as experienced via our online lives by Joe Moran (If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence).Also featuring writing by Munizha Ahmad-Cooke, Laura Dobson, Edvige Giunta, Candice Kelsey, Elizabeth Norton, Ali Seegar, Richard Skelton, Michelle Spinei, Adrian Tissier, Dave Wakely and Sam Gordon Webb.

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