{"product_id":"9780008591502","title":"Illuminated : Autism \u0026 All the Things I’Ve Left Unsaid","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Sykes, Melanie \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 25\/04\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages, 16 col plates (8pp),\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008591502,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe impactful and empowering memoir from Melanie Sykes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Melanie Sykes has been a face on our screens, a voice on our radios for nearly thirty years. As a presenter and broadcaster people turned to her for her humour, her honesty and insight. But between all the interviews and chat shows, is a life unseen, a story unsaid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Her journey – from up north to down south, from Manchester to LA and via London, Paris and India, and through the eye of the storm of celebrity culture is a rollercoaster ride. Sex, drugs and rock and roll, certainly, but also brass bands and ice cream vans, broken hearts and healing adventures – a search not for fame but for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Her autism diagnosis in midlife has supercharged that journey – and means this isn’t a story just of breakdown, but of breakthrough. Funny, furious and gloriously frank, this is a book that lifts the lid on being a woman in the media, navigating relationships, and being a neurodivergent person speaking up in a neurotypical world. Illuminated is Melanie, in her own inimitable voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43062189260844,"sku":"9780008591502","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008591502.jpg?v=1712737635","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9780008591502","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}