Love, Greg & Lauren by Greg Manning

You hold in your hands a remarkable book. It is the story of a medical miracle that seems unbelievable, but every word of it is true. Inspiring and deeply moving, it is a unique document of the will to survive. It is also, above all else, a love story.
   Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, Lauren Manning - a wife, the mother of an eleven-month-old son, and a senior vice president and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald - came to work at One World Trade Center. As she stepped into the lobby, a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft, and in that split second her life was changed forever.
   Lauren was burned over 82.5 per cent of her body.
   As he watched his wife lie in a drug-induced coma at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Greg manning began a daily journal. In the form of e-mails to family, friends and colleagues he recorded Lauren's harrowing struggle - and his own efforts to make sense of an act that defies all understanding. Each message ends, as in in prayer for a happy outcome, 'Love, Greg & Lauren'.
   Through his eyes we see what she could not - their toddler's first steps, the video of his first birthday party, the compassionate messages of hope from around the world. And we are there as Lauren gradually emerges into awareness, and bravely faces the long journey to recovery.
   Finally, miraculously, we are there when Lauren walks out of the Burn Center.
   The world knows too well both the nightmare and the heroism that have marked this terrible time in history. But no account of September 11 matches the astonishing personal story that Greg Manning records in these heartfelt pages.