AustLit

'When Wally Lewis, rugby league legend turned TV news presenter, had an epileptic seizure live on air in November 2006, his world came crashing down around him.

'The medical condition he'd spent two decades attempting to conceal from the public had been brutally exposed. With his health on a downward spiral, the only solution was the one that terrified him the most - brain surgery.

'While the rugby league world tried to come to terms with the vulnerability of "The King", Wally and his family prepared for the toughest battle of his life. But the surgery wouldn't be the end of his struggle ...

'Out of the Shadows is Wally's startlingly candid account of his life since his retirement from rugby league - from the darkest days of depression and debilitating seizures to his hard-fought recovery and triumphant return to the nation's TV screens.' (From the publisher's website.)