Christopher's Wish

About the Book

Christopher’s Wish is a story about a handicap that many misunderstand and only a few make an effort to understand.  That handicap is stuttering.

Christopher’s Allen, the central character of the story, is a young man who stutters so severely that people are embarrassed and afraid to be near him.  Christopher grows up in the decades of the sixties and seventies, when it was acceptable, if not expected, to reject those with handicaps. Like most children with disabilities in those times,

Christopher is feared, teased and shunned.

Because of his stuttering, Christopher finds himself homeless once he graduates high school.  His family, his peers, even employers reject him without mercy.  Months later, his homelessness ends.  But his emptiness and loneliness do not.  For this, he tries to end his life.

But suicide was not to be for him.  His hospital stay introduces him to Dr. Larrabee, a psychiatrist, who fast becomes Christopher’s friend.  Dr. Larrabee, once a speech pathologist, returns to that role and walks Christopher out of the briar patch of stuttering and into the cool, green meadow of self-acceptance, self-confidence and self-love.  With a new inner self comes a new life.  For the first time in his life,

Christopher hears from the lips of a woman the words I love you.  From his own lips, thanks to his new love and Dr. Larrabee, he finally hears his words come forth without the black stain of stuttering.

About the Author

Note: The author wishes not to place his short bio on the back cover. only the short summary. this is for our refernce only P. W. Walters was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. While attending the University of Utah, he discovered a passion and love for writing. Christopher’s Wish is his first novel. Loving to write, the author put pen to paper and wrote about something he is personally familiar with, stuttering; basing it upon his experiences and research into the handicap.