Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Sample

£0.00 for first 30 days

Try for £0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Fighting Fate

By: Justin Yerbury
Narrated by: Nick Rheinbeger
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

Pursued by 'the beast' of motor neurone disease, groundbreaking scientist Justin Yerbury wrote this extraordinary memoir entirely with eye movements. It is the sharpest possible lens on the value of life and hope.

Justin Yerbury made a promise to his mother while she was dying of motor neurone disease (MND) that he would do everything he could to find a cure. MND had already taken several members of Justin's family, and he learned that they carried a rare genetic form of the disease that gave them a fifty-fifty chance of inheritance.

Desperate to help his loved ones, Justin went to university to study science, eventually becoming a professor of molecular biology at the University of Wollongong and one of the world's leading experts on MND. While in New York, delivering a lecture on his groundbreaking research, Justin felt his thumb stop working—'the beast' that had lurked so long in the shadows had caught up with him.

Now 99 per cent paralyzed and able to move only his eyeballs, Justin refuses to yield. With eye-tracking software, he has written his extraordinary memoir to shine light on this terrible disease and to show that, even in the bleakest of moments, there is always a reason to keep fighting.
©2023 Justin Yerbury (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd
Science & Technology Brain & Nervous System
Show More Show Less
activate_samplebutton_t1

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Chasing My Cure cover art
The Last Doctor cover art
The Memory Thief cover art
Borrowing Life cover art
Stronger cover art
Little Matches cover art
Growing Up Disabled in Australia cover art
All in My Head cover art
Doctor Dogs cover art
Was This in the Plan? cover art
Playful Intelligence cover art
Cognitive Dominance cover art
The Beauty of Dusk cover art
The Deep Places cover art
About Us cover art
Cross Everything cover art

What listeners say about Fighting Fate

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.co.uk reviews

Amazon reviews
Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Lem8re

Hard & Enlightening

For personal reasons this book is a listen in places, and does get very technical in parts, but I feel like I needed to listen to this for myself and glad I did.

For the past 10 years my mother has suffered from MND, (not due to sod1) and I knew very little about it. I can not begin to understand what this family, or any family must have to go through with familial MND, but Justin Yerbury's story has opened my eyes, and I now need to know more.

Report this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!