Marie's Voice

An incredible story a new voice. Marie was a severely handicapped five-year-old when she first met Michelle Daly. Now, some twenty years later, through Michelle, we can read Marie's own story her challenge to mental and physical handicap in an unsentimental, honest and thought-provoking voice. Marie could not tell her own story. Now she has been given a voice. Familiar to many handicapped people and their families, hers is a story which speaks from among the silent. A vivid evocation of life 'on the inside' of a group of special people. Michelle Daly was an ordinary teenager when she met Marie. She was soon to become the youngest single woman in Britain to obtain legal guardianship of somebody else's child. The incredible commitment she made has utterly shaped and enriched both her own and Marie's lives. The story they have to tell a uniquely extraordinary life adventure is a challenge to all who read it and celebration of great achievement.