This book highlights important issues in the health and social sector when treating and dealing with brain trauma. An insightful read, this short book packs in the profound effects of brain trauma and the difficulties faced by those in recovery.

This book cover attracted me for awhile because I'm a heavy metal fan, so I decided to take the plunge. Also, it's quite a short book at under 200 pages, so a quick read. It's about a young woman who got hit by a car leaving work and sustained a head injury. She was on her way to a Judas Priest concert.

The book covers her experience recovering from this injury, and the fallout in her life involving her mobility, sensory abilities, memory and emotional issues. It also depicts, with deserved irony, the unfairness of the legal and health systems in addressing her case. She was enjoying a career in PR at the time of the accident.

While I greatly sympathized with her plight, I didn't connect with her writing style. However, because of the low amount of pages, I didn't mind finishing. I applaud her "inner fight" and strength to go forward after such a traumatic injury.

Thank you to the publisher Headpress, Oil on Water Press who provided an advance reader copy via NetGalley.