Charlotte Moore has three children: the two oldest George & Sam are autistic; the youngest Jake is not. In this extraordinary book which combines personal memoir with the most recent known information on this most fascinating & elusive of conditions she describes the circumstances of their birth behaviour diagnosis treatment
- & brilliantly conveys what daily life is like for a family with autism. Its an invaluable book for anyone with an interest in childhood & child development. George & Sam was published to huge acclaim by Viking Penguin in 2004
- it was immediately regarded as one of the key books on autism. In this new edition Charlotte Moore brings the story up to date by describing the boys passage through adolescence & its impact on her family.