num_pages: 281
description: Melanie Marsh is an American living in London married to Stephen, the perfect Englishman, who knew the minute he saw her that she was to his future. But when their youngest child is diagnosed with autism their marriage starts to unravel at great speed. Stephan runs back into arms of his previous girlfriend while Melanie does everything in her power to help her son and keep her family together. Daniel Isn't Talking is a passionate and darkly humorous novel that explores a mother's determination to help her child. A love story for grown-ups, it somehow extends its wisdom far beyond the parameters of disability and into substance of human nature itself. A tense, moving novel that will make you laugh out loud even as it breaks your heart.
language: English
title: Daniel Isn't Talking
titlecomplete: Daniel Isn't Talking
genres: Fiction, Family, Book Club, Psychology, Education, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Medical, Disability, Autistic Spectrum Disorder
ratings_count: 1922
publisher: Fourth Estate