MJ Hyland on MS

The other night, I had rolled up an old The New Review from August - as yet unread - to nudge a high up daddy-long-legs and noticed an article by writer MJ Hyland - I loved Carry Me Down - on her diagnosis of MS.  I did not know she had MS and immediately abandoned the daddy-long-legs and sat down and read the article, a no-nonsense, gorgeous piece of writing on the shock of finding out she was not 'invincible' but in fact had multiple sclerosis. Hyland refers to her initial response to...