Beautiful Lives
- Author Stephen Unwin
- Narrator Stephen Unwin
- Publisher Headline
- Publish Date 5 June 2025
- Run Time 8 hours and 46 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Disability: social aspects, History, Individual actors and performers, Political activism, Social and cultural history, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Social welfare and social services, Sociology and anthropology.
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'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.
| Author | Stephen Unwin |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Stephen Unwin |
| Duration | 8 hours and 46 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781035424764 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Headline |
| Genre | Disability: social aspects, History, Individual actors and performers, Political activism, Social and cultural history, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Social welfare and social services, Sociology and anthropology |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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