Horray!
It’s been a jubilant weekend for our Piccadilly author, Laura Summers, who has won the Literature Ability Media International Award for Desperate Measures. I’m going to hiss at pigeons later (whilst safely indoors, behind glass) to celebrate.
My little heart swelled with pride when I heard that Wayne Drew, chairman of the Ability Media Creative Board, had said that Desperate Measures is ‘destined to promote a more fair, just and inclusive society, for the benefit of us all.’
The lovely Laura Summers has said, on winning the award,
‘It is an absolute honour to have won this amazing award, although creating a fictional heroine with a learning disability didn’t seem an unusual thing for me to choose to do. I wanted to show what I have learnt over the years – that we’re all individuals and whatever our abilities or disabilities, we all want and need the same things – family, friends, to be treated decently and to reach our potential – a life basically.‘
Laura Summers at AMI Awards
