Love Anthony - Hardcover

Lisa Genova

3.97

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1471113256 ISBN 13: 9781471113253

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2012

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Olivia Donatelli's dream of a 'normal' life was shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. He didn't speak. He hated to be touched. He almost never made eye contact. And just as Olivia was starting to realise that happiness and autism could coexist, Anthony died. Now she's alone in a cottage on Nantucket, separated from her husband, desperate to understand the meaning of her son's short life, when a chance encounter with another woman facing her own loss brings Anthony alive again for Olivia in a most unexpected way. In a piercing story about motherhood, love and female friendship, Lisa Genova offers us two unforgettable women on the verge of change who discover the small but exuberant voice that helps them both find the answers they need.A moving and memorable story that every woman should read.This hardback book has 309 pages and measures: 24 x 16 x 2cm.

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'There's a point in the narrative where one of the characters becomes so engrossed in reading a book that she loses track of time. Readers of Genova s latest excellent offering might very well find the same happening to them' --Kirkus

'Vivid and memorable writing ... By the time you are finished reading, you will have read a wonderful novel while also emerging more knowledgeable about the world of autism.' --Bookreporter.com

About the Author:

Lisa Genova graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. She is a member of the Dementia Advocacy and Support Network International and DementiaUSA and is an online columnist for the National Alzheimer's Association. She lives with her husband and two children on the Cape. Still Alice is her first novel. She is currently at work on her second that also centers on a neurologist impairment called Left Neglected.

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