Absolutely loved it, one of my fave 2022 books

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Lucy was an accomplished cellist, independent, travelled around for gigs, mingled with the rich and famous and was just waiting for a big break.
But then she got married and had children, the job offers were harder to do with a husband in the same business and two very young children and the eldest as Lucy increasingly suspects could be Autistic.
Juggling jobs, an increasingly distant husband, two children, their home there is very little left over for Lucy herself.
She is at breaking point and needs help and answers to the questions on how to deal with a spectrum child and to adapt to society judging them as a "little different" as they view it.
A touching yet laugh out loud story of a family that is struggling and on the brink yet also desperately love each other.
Pretty much every line in this book is so, so relatable as there are spectrum people in my family.
Without the blurb about the author at the back of the novel saying she is the mother of two autistic sons you can tell that she is either a mother to a spectrum child or knew someone close with it.
She writes with such a depth of knowledge of the "little" things and triggers that spectrum people experience yet mean so little to non spectrums.
I was just literally nodding my point to pretty much everything on every page.
Definitely one of my favourite and stand out books of the year.
At times it had me crying with laughter and at others just plain out crying.
A touching, heart felt novel that will be deeply appreciated by spectrum parents everywhere as to how it feels of facing the daily life and battles let alone others judgements on a spectrum child.