IF you're a disabled person, have you ever seriously questioned how society treats you?

Or if you're able bodied, have you ever given a thought to how it feels to live with a major physical disability?

Whatever your situation, this subversive and mind-shattering novel will change your views for ever.

Seventeen-year-old Jean has severe cerebral palsy, but her parents have successfully given her as normal a life as possible, and she's a happy star pupil at her mainstream school. But now she's having her first taste of summer camp - and her first experience of mixing with a whole community of other disabled teenagers, ranging from amputees and the "normal but epileptic" to the seriously deformed or educationally subnormal. As she makes friends with them, Jean suddenly begins to wonder about her place in society - especially when she meets Sara, a fellow wheelchair-user, who has revolutionary tendencies.

The author, an American lawyer, is herself disabled, and the book is based on her own experiences at a similar summer camp in the 1970s. Her background and the historical setting allow her to cast out the political correctness that currently inhibits discussion of such issues, giving a refreshingly frank and often disturbing insight into the parallel world which many disabled people are forced to inhabit.

Endless food for thought. Every young person should read it. (Age 12+)