Stuart A Life Backwards Real Story

As the title suggests the book starts from shorter s adult life and works backwards to trace through his troubled childhood examining the effects his family schooling and disability had.

Stuart a life backwards real story. A life backwards is a tale of stuart clive shorter told by alexander masters. An unlikely friendship bloomed and in a new book stuart. This week we re covering stuart. A life backwards is roughly the life of stuart shorter from the time he was thirty four going backwards through his homeless stretches his prison terms adolescence to boyhood.

The story is written in reverse by doing so alexander gains an insight into how stuart s life became so chaotic and out of control. It explores how a young boy somewhat disabled from birth became mentally unstable criminal and violent living homeless on the streets of cambridge. From becoming violent to career criminal and living homeless. As alexander gets to know stuart more he asks him if he can write his life story it is stuart who suggests the story be written backwards.

And we follow the two as their lives evolve because of their unlikely friendship. It also is a life backwards in the sense of a life that never should have been that way. A bbc drama written by alexander masters it is based on his acclaimed account of the real life of stuart shorter a self harming drug addict career criminal with a long history of violence who is also homeless and suffers from muscular dystrophy. As mark twain once said truth is stranger than fiction and that is certainly the case in stuart.

As we get to know about stuart we start to explore his life from childhood where he was bullied and with that traumatic experience his life was lead. If you ve just joined us please check out our previous reviews of inside i m dancing and the fundamentals of caring. A life backwards a 2007 film starring benedict cumberbatch and tom hardy as alexander master and stuart shorter respectively. A life backwards is a biography by alexander masters of his friend stuart clive shorter formerly at various times a prisoner and a career criminal.

Aspiring writer alexander masters benedict cumberbatch through working with homeless people meets stuart tom hardy a homeless alcoholic with a traumatic past. This is also our first film that s based on a true story.