Edwyn Collins: The road to recovery

In 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered a debilitating and near fatal brain haemorrhage. Amazingly, the former Orange Juice singer and Cribs producer was able to return to the stage in 2007. In these six extracts from her book Falling and Laughing, Collins's wife and manager Grace Maxwell describes the singer's road to recovery"Brain damage, I think. I'm a moron."On our usual drive from Northwick Park Hospital to Harrow town centre for supper, Edwyn stuns me by bursting into song:"I'm searching for the ...

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