Longlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
It wasn’t a car crash, but there was a collision.
He fell from the third floor.
At the age of twenty-two, Grace Spence Green’s spine was broken at the fourth thoracic vertebra, and her life changed tracks.
One day, she was in hospital supporting patients, the next she was one.
To Exist As I Am traces Grace’s journey back to the wards and back to herself.
Through her extraordinary story, she asks how we might fight for change, and shift how we think about disability – while joyously embracing life exactly as we are.
