Reaching One Thousand: A Story of love, motherhood and autism
Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 240 pp
Memoir
Dancing on his own
by Carmel Bird •
At some stage in every workshop on the art of memoir somebody raises the question of ethics, of privacy, and of who has the right to tell a version of a story. How far, the author of Reaching One Thousand asks, is she prepared to ‘sacrifice other people’s privacy’? What betrayals will she ‘perpetrate on others’?
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Reaching One Thousand: A Story of love, motherhood and autism
by Rachel Robertson
Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 240 pp
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