The positive reviews continue to flood in for ‘Blind Man with a Vision: Losing Sight and Gaining Insight,’ which is available to purchase on Amazon. All proceeds got to Daisy Inclusive UK, a Liverpool-based charity that helps disabled and vulnerable people across the region.
Available in paperback, as an audiobook and as a kindle edition, this candid book tells the story of Daisy Inclusive UK CEO Dave Kelly who went blind at the age of 30. Click here to purchase now.
Up until then, Dave had lived a life like any other young man, albeit one blessed to be growing up in Liverpool during the heyday of The Beatles and Liverpool FC’s win against Leeds in the 1965 FA Cup.
But then, one day everything changed. Dave was faced with a choice. He could either let blindness defeat him or he could face it head-on and live as fulfilling a life as he possibly could. In fact, becoming blind opened up a whole new world for Dave and inspired him to help others find light where before they had only seen darkness.
After years of loneliness and isolation, Dave emerged as a blind man with a vision. Blind Man with a Vision is his story…and he’s only just getting started.
David Cam, Under Sherriff from the Dutchy of Lancaster wrote the following: –
Having enjoyed Dave Kelly’s company on more than one occasion, I expected “Blind Man with a Vision” to be poignant but amusing. I prepared for the forthcoming “roller coaster” of emotions and was not to be disappointed.
Dave’s character and sense of humour shine through from the very beginning, and it is clear that he has dictated every word without any influence from a “ghost writer” which would have ruined the experience.
Whilst I have often heard people say of a book “I couldn’t put it down,” I genuinely found this read to be the best example of precisely that sentiment.
The book opens with stories from Dave’s very happy childhood and his love of football and other sports. His sense of humour and scouse turn of phrase shines through on every page and one cannot help but laugh out loud at so many anecdotes.
But then came the routine visit to the optometrist – and life would never be the same again. If the book were a novel I would have read on continually hoping that the experts were wrong and that their prediction was flawed. But I know Dave, and I knew the outcome – so my “roller coaster” of emotions was relentless. As I read on, I learned of his trauma, his gloom and his despair and then, miraculously, his flash of inspiration which became Daisy Inclusive UK.
And, as they say, ‘the rest is history.’
I am thrilled that Dave made the effort to write the book. It is never easy – especially for a novice, but this book is utterly inspirational from start to finish. It will inspire people who are wonderfully happy and content in their wonderful lives just as much as it will fortify those who are suffering from any mental or physical disability who are themselves in despair and cannot see “the light at the end of the tunnel.” Dave sets a glorious example for all of us. He is one of the funniest men one could ever hope to meet, and it is he who sets the scene and generates the electric atmosphere at Daisy HQ.
Thank you, Dave, you have delivered a best seller in every sense of the word.
