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A Place for Everything
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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A Place for Everything
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Publisher's Summary
Anna grew up in a house that was loving, even if her mum was ‘a little eccentric’. They knew to keep things clean, to stay quiet, and to look the other way when things started to get ‘a bit much for your mum’.
It’s only when her mother reaches her 70s and Anna has a family of her own that the cracks really start to appear. More manic. More irrational. More detached from the world. And when her father, the man who has calmed and cajoled her mother through her entire life is diagnosed with cancer, the whole world turns upside down.
This is a story of a life lived with undiagnosed Asperger's, about the person behind the disorder, those big unspoken family truths and what it means to care for our parents in their final years.
Critic Reviews
"[A] vividly told and profoundly affecting memoir." (The Bookseller)
"I read A Place for Everything with my heart in my mouth, gripped by this howl of anguish about loving someone you cannot help. This is both a love story and a horror story; an unforgettable account of a daughter going into battle to try to save her mother and father, and the toll it took. Painful, raw and with an honesty that rings clear as a bell. This is a beautiful book and an important one." (Catherine Simpson, author of When I Had a Little Sister)
"The last decade of life is the new frontier for the diagnosis of autism - brought home to us in this captivating story." (Professor Tony Attwood, clinical psychologist)
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- gina saunders
- 11-10-2020
thank you Anna, and thanks to your mum
it was a difficult story to hear, but I listened on. As you shared the secrets of your family and the dynamics that kept you all together, that slowly fell apart. I felt an affirmation of my own fractured relationship with my beloved, difficult, frustrated and frustrating mother.
Your story gave me one last shred of hope that mothers don't all love their children like saints and martyrs. some love them with sharp edges, which make the love harder to experience, but I can acknowledge that it's there.
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