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The Language Of Others (2000)

by Clare Morrall(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0340896655 (ISBN13: 9780340896655)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Sceptre

review 1: The people in this book annoyed me intensely , especially Andrew who was a complete nut job and came across as an incomplete and a rather insincere character. For me it would have been better if the story gone into more detail of how Jess herself saw ,heard and experienced her life as a child and more detail about why she was unable to communicate with the other people in her life. The parents were so self absorbed it was painful and most of them needed therapy! They did not try to find out what was wrong with Jess and ignored the bullying from the cousins although it seems they knew it was going on. This book treated what could have been quite a riveting in depth look at autism in successive generations of a family like a holiday read or woman's magazine s... moretory.
review 2: What a surprise this one was. Went to library to pick up a requested item and noticed this on the trolly to be shelved. I am going to read more of her books. This story was so easy to read and really did fulfil the blurb on the back - a woman's story related with humour and compassion which offers a fresh, illuminating insight into what it means to be 'normal'. The term 'dysfunctional' was bandied around a lot in the 1980's and 1990's which annoyed me immensely at the time. This book is a wonderful story of how a woman operates in a difficult world. She certainly wasn't dysfunctional. less

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