SHELBIE- Heaven's Borrowed Child is an uplifting story about love, faith and determination. Shelbie was born with Partial Trisomy 9p, an extremely rare chromosome abnormality. Although little was known about the condition at the time, five years earlier her mother, Vicki's, second child, Charlie, had also been born with it and had died at just twelve weeks old. This is the story of an extraordinary child and an equally extraordinary mother who never stopped battling for her daughter's right to a happy life. One of the children featured in the long running Channel 4 TV series, Born To Be Different, Shelbie had multiple serious health issues, a love of mischief and a smile that could light up a room. The book describes the roller coaster ride of being a parent of a profoundly disabled child who wanted to live her life to the full and taught others to do the same.