Ebury publishing director Andrew Goodfellow has bought the story of
former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins' recovery from a brain
haemorrhage, written by his partner Grace Maxwell.

Goodfellow acquired world rights in Falling and Laughing: The
Restoration of Edwyn Collins from Simon Benham of Mayer Benham.

Collins suffered two near-fatal haemorrhages in February 2005, and
after life-saving surgery was left with partial paralysis and aphasia
(loss of speech and language, including reading and writing). Falling
and Laughing charts his slow road to recovery at home with Maxwell
and their young son.

Goodfellow said the "intimate and inspiring" story would appeal to
Edwyn Collins' fans, and also to stroke victims and their families,
comparing it to The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, Robert McCrum's My
Year Off and Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking.

Falling and Laughing will be published in hardback in June 2009, and
Collins, who is now touring again, will promote.

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