A searing account of a mother's late-diagnosis of autism - and its reaching effects on a whole family.
Anna grew up in a house that was loving, even if her mum was 'a little eccentric'. They knew to keep things clean, to stay quiet, and to look the other way when things started to get 'a bit much for your mum'.
It's only when her mother reaches her 70s, and Anna has a family of her own, that the cracks really start to appear. More manic. More irrational. More detached from the world. And when her father, the man who has calmed and cajoled her mother through her entire life becomes unwell, the whole world turns upside down.
This is a story of a life lived with undiagnosed autism, about the person behind the disorder, those big unspoken family truths, and what it means to care for our parents in their final years.
Anna Wilson was born in Kent and now lives in Cornwall. A former children's book editor, Anna has published over 50 books for children. She is the author of the award-winning Top of the Pups series. Her non-fiction nature almanac Nature Month-by-Month is published annually in conjunction with the National Trust and was recently shortlisted for the ALCS Educational Writers' Award. Her latest fiction series for children, Vlad the World's Worst Vampire, has been translated into 11 different languages. Anna also works as a tutor and mentor for unpublished writers. A Place for Everything is her first book for adults.
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