'Both heart-rending and gorgeous. He teaches us humanity' MIRIAM MARGOLYES
'Thank you, Joey, for getting your dad off his arse to write this book' HUGH BONNEVILLE
'A beautiful book - powerful, persuasive, illuminating, moving' GYLES BRANDRETH
'Full of pain and joy, concern and celebration' SIMON RUSSELL BEALE
'A powerful, multi-faceted, myth-busting account' SIMON JARRETT
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For much of history, people with learning disabilities have been regarded as unworthy of interest - often seen as a threat to the social order and sometimes dismissed as barely human. While recent years have seen an improvement, learning-disabled people are still treated as fundamentally different.
Beautiful Lives is a personal and pragmatic account, told through the eyes of a father whose son has severe learning disabilities. From early civilisation to the chilling realities of twentieth-century eugenics, this powerful book uncovers a startling and rarely told history - one deeply embedded in the challenges still faced today.
Unwin shapes this history into a powerful story of love, lived experience and the long struggle for a better future.
| ISBN: | 9781035424733 |
| Publication date: | 5th June 2025 |
| Author: | Stephen Unwin |
| Publisher: | Wildfire an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Genres: |
Disability: social aspects Social discrimination and social justice Social and cultural history Social welfare and social services Political activism / Political engagement Individual actors and performers Sociology and anthropology History |
'Both heart-rending and gorgeous. He teaches us humanity' MIRIAM MARGOLYES
'Thank you, Joey, for getting your dad off his arse to write this book' HUGH BONNEVILLE
'A beautiful book - powerful, persuasive, illuminating, moving' GYLES BRANDRETH
'Full of pain and joy, concern and celebration' SIMON RUSSELL BEALE
'A powerful, multi-faceted, myth-busting account' SIMON JARRETT
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For much of history, people with learning disabilities have been regarded as unworthy of interest - often seen as a threat to the social order and sometimes dismissed as barely human. While recent years have seen an improvement, learning-disabled people are still treated as fundamentally different.
Beautiful Lives is a personal and pragmatic account, told through the eyes of a father whose son has severe learning disabilities. From early civilisation to the chilling realities of twentieth-century eugenics, this powerful book uncovers a startling and rarely told history - one deeply embedded in the challenges still faced today.
Unwin shapes this history into a powerful story of love, lived experience and the long struggle for a better future.
Beautiful Lives features in the following genres: Political activism / Political engagement, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Autobiography: general, Memoirs, Individual actors and performers, Films, cinema
Beautiful Lives is available in Paperback, Hardback
Beautiful Lives was written by Stephen Unwin and published by Wildfire an imprint of Headline Publishing Group
Beautiful Lives has 304 pages
£22.50