Meet Merlin. Be the first to ask a question about The Boy Who Fell To Earth I found the first part of the book a bit full on but half way through the book (when Archie arrived) it became more of a story and less of a list of anecdotes about Merlin's behaviour. Please try again Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. But when their son Merlin is diagnosed, at the age of three years, as autistic, Jeremy runs off with his lover, a buxom TV chef, and the divorce is poisonous. She seems to have no friends (although there is vague reference late in the book where she mentions losing touch with them) which isn't completely surprising for such a dull character, and she seems to have not considered joining any sort of support group where she'd meet other parents with the same difficulties. Lucy also has to field questions from the literal mind of her son such as “…if there is a happy hour in a bar is there a sad hour?..” There were also some very hairy questions, usually at the most inappropriate times like telling his grand-mother that he had heard she had two faces so why she was wearing the face she had on today! Unfortunately Merlin is little more than a sideshow to the main event of Lucy “choosing” between two equally unappealing men – a misogynistic, stinky (ok, I can’t verify this as thankfully the novel didn’t come equipped with smellovision, but there was something undeniably skanky about him), lazy, ageing rockstar called Archie who apparently channels all his energy into being good in bed, as he never bothers his arse to do anything else; and a misogynistic, workoholic, upper class twit called Jeremy* who fathered Merlin and then buggered off with a young TV presenter.I did enjoy this book. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Seriously, what is with the authors need to make every damn sentence into a comedy sketch?! That is not to say that the book has no substance at all; the frustrations of being a parent of an autistic child are made plain but in some ways only scratch the surface. I have a teen with Asperger's, and did have many 'Been there done that" moments in the story. I probably smiled during Dead Sexy and How to Kill Your Husband but I honestly can’t remember. But this was a totally unbelievable story, and every single line contained a sarcastic comparison to the subject - the repetition nearly drove me nuts. The characters were well drawn albeit a bit cliched. At first I thought this sounded like a witty recounting of a mother of a boy on the autism spectrum. I lived through this book with tears and empathy for the author. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Reviewed by William Grimes.

I wanted to know how things turned out so I kept on reading it. Well done!Full of ableist jokes, a woman who shouldn't be a mother to anyone, and a stuck-up family who'll pay to get rid of an autistic child, Full of ableist jokes, a woman who shouldn't be a mother to anyone, and a stuck-up family who'll pay to get rid of an autistic child, Kathy Lette writes from experience. The Asperger experience or the trip on the Autistic spectrum presented as humerous could only have been done expertly by Kathy Lette. All these years on I'm now the mother of an autistic child and so returned to her because of it being written from experience about living with an autistic child.

304 pages. The truth would be too painful and that wouldn't be any fun to read! The education authority's inability to pick up the boy's condition was remaVery disappointed, unfortunately (and I don't say that too often, do I?). Folks expecting a deep analysis on life as the mother of a child with autism written by someone who knows will be disappointed. We are all different ! And I did laugh out loud when I read Foetal Attraction and Mad Cows. Under her deft hand, we experience a witty, clever, ironic and poignant account of a woman with a psychologically-challenged child; a different child. Thanks Kathy Lette! I liked that it was not all about Merlin. Having someone else revealing there inner thoughts, thou not always matching my own, was comforting when you have felt no one else understands the stresses. Should be on a compulsory book list for teachers and politicians. I have two children with Aspergers and the biggest problem that we have is other people's attitudes. Oh for an assertive editor!The Boy Who Fell To Earth is the thirteenth novel by Australian author, Kathy Lette. Since Merlin's father left them in the lurch, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her world. Despite not being a factual read, thKathy Lette writes from experience. Her fights with the educational heirachy is an ongoing serious issue for parents are ongoing today and sadly there is little parents can do but keep fighting for their children no matter what. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I also feel that it is about Lucy NOT truly excepting her son for who he is until the I did enjoy this book. Utterly insulting! The truth would be too painful and that wouldn't be any fun to read! Lucy’s marriage to Jeremy is perfect: he’s rich, intelligent and attractive; she’s witty, funny and attractive.
There's a line somewhere in the fourth chapter that sums up this authors writing style perfectly: words streamed out of him like traffic, a collision of stories and tangential, lateral lunacy.


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