The Magic of the Mask - Hardcover

Louise Ashby had it all. A talented actress embarking upon a significant Hollywood career, she had a face most women would give anything for and a bubbling personality that endeared her to everybody she met. And then, disaster struck. Driving down a Hollywood boulevard with a close friend, an elderly driver ploughed his car into hers. Louise never knew what hit her. Within hours she was undergoing advanced brain surgery. It took eleven and a half hours to save her life. By rights, she should have been dead. But she could not understand why the visitors to her bedside would not let her look in a mirror. Little did she know that her face was sunken and misshapen, her head swollen to twice its size, her skin scarred from ear to ear. The reconstructive surgery that followed was genuinely miraculous. It took many months and nearly a million pounds to complete. This is the incredible story of Louise’s terrible accident and the amazing events that followed. It is a heartwarming story of the triumph of medicine and the human spirit against seemingly insurmountable odds. It is the story of a modern miracle...