Book request: Book set in Britain, read in the 90's. Girl is a model. She is on a train which crashes/ derails. She is taken to hospital and ends up losing the leg. She is fitted with a prosthetic leg. She then gets a job as a teaching assistant in a primary school where there are 3 children with prosthetic limbs, 2 of which have come to terms with their prosthetic limbs, the third is very angry about it so the Girl gets him to hit her on the prosthetic leg to make him realise that she understands where he is coming from but that he needn't be held back by it. Girl gets into a relationship with the doctor who helps with her rehabilitation.

Matching book description: En route to a West End audition, young Gemma Goodeve is involved in a railway disaster which she survives - but with the loss of a leg. She finds she has to contend not only with her ambitious mother's disappointment at the ending of her stage career, but also with a media circus. En route to a West End audition, young Gemma Goodeve is involved in a railway disaster which she survives - but with the loss of a leg. She finds she has to contend not only with her ambitious mother's disappointment at the ending of her stage career, but also with a media circus. ...more