LATE BLOOMER

LATE BLOOMER

• Publishing Company:

  THE BKS AGENCY

• Imprint:

  HACHETTE/LITTLE,BROWN/PIATKUS

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  ELIZA FRICKER (AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR)

• Number of Pages:

  224

• Publication Date:

• Age:

  ALL AGES

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  FICTION

• Key words:

  AUTISM SPECTRUM, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ADOLESCENCE,

• Summary:

  A witty and moving illustrated memoir about growing up autistic but not knowing it, for people of any age who are (or might be) autistic too.

   

  By the author of Sunday Times Bestseller Can’t Not Won’t and Thumbsucker.

   

  “A warm, funny and thought-provoking account of growing up and feeling different.” – Georgia Pritchett, writer and co-executive producer of Succession; author of My Mess is a Bit of a Life, on Thumbsucker

   

  “School life took its toll in the1990s: relationships were hard and the academic pressure was harder. No one talked about neurodivergence then …

   

  I grew up knowing I was different. I knew it because everyone told me. I knew I felt things more than other people did. I was too much; I was too sensitive; I worried too much. I couldn’t understand why others seemingly didn’t feel the way I did.

   

  And so, I learnt to watch.

   

  I wanted to be liked and loved and not disappoint or confuse those that meant so much to me.

   

  But that meant hiding who I really was.

   

  This book is about how I learnt to manage a world that was not just confusing but utterly overwhelming.”

   

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