A mother tethered to her homeby an autistic son whos tethered to his computeryearns for freedom in this "sharply observed" novel "A terrific read." The Herald Alices life is dictated by her autistic son, Sam, who refuses to leave their remote Lancashire farm. Her only escape is two hours in Lancaster on Tuesday afternoons. Then one day, her husband brings rootless wanderer Larry to the farm to embark on a moneymaking scheme. Alice is hostilebut Larry beguiles Sam with tales of travel in the outside world and, soon, Alice begins to fall for him, too. By turns blackly comic, heartbreaking, and heartwarming, Truestory looks at what happens when sacrifice slithers towards martyrdom, and how even when we feel trapped in our lives, we sometimes have more options than we realise. "Moving but never mawkish, and ultimately hopeful, providing a sympathetic portrait of a family struggling with autism in straitened times. Sams online interactions with a motley group of friends are laughoutloud funny." Sunday Mirror"[Simpsons] writing is vivid, perceptive and acute." James Robertson, Walter Scott Prizewinning author of News of the Dead

Binding: Paperback;324 pages; Publisher: Bloodhound Books; Classification: N/A; Weight: 491.95 g; Dimensions: N/A

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