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Title: Daniel Isn't Talking
Author(s): Leimbach, Marti
Published: 2006
Copies: 1
Summary: FROM THE PUBLISHER A fearless, unsentimental novel about a mother's devotion to her autistic child, by the bestselling author of Dying Young. Simultaneous international publication. Smart, resilient, engaged with the world, Melanie Marsh has already weathered the suicide of her father, the death of her mother, and the loss of her lover, but she has not lost the thrill of adventure or her wry sense of humour. When she comes to England to study, Melanie meets Stephen, a financial analyst, and is drawn immediately to his strong presence. Marriage and family quickly follow, as well as a certain happiness, until Melanie's worst suspicions are confirmed about their three-year-old son, Daniel. Daniel has autism and the prognosis is grim. Frustrated by the limits of the medical system, Melanie takes Daniel's care into her own hands and devotes all she has to working with him. Her marriage soon begins to falter and Stephen eventually turns to a former lover. It is at about this time that she seeks out Andy O'Connor, an alternative therapist whose controversial approach to autism she's heard something about. It is Andy's creativity, his patience and caring, that enable her son's progress, and for the first time, hope, in many forms, takes root. Passionate, moving, heartbreakingly real, Marti Leimbach's new novel reveals a mother's desperation and the capacities of love, demonstrating once again Leimbach's gift for storytelling and for portraying characters we come to care deeply about.

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