Melanie Reid: Horse riding fall that left me paralysed and my close Northern Ireland links

As her deeply moving and inspiring memoir, The World I Fell Out Of, is published nine years on from her accident, the writer talks to Laurence White

Melanie Reid, who became tetraplegic after being thrown from her horse

Nine years ago, on April 2, 2010, Melanie Reid, a journalist with The Times, based in Scotland, was approaching a small jump on her horse when it refused, throwing her off.

She tumbled head first into the ground, breaking her neck and fracturing her back.