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Memoir

Dancing on his own

by Carmel Bird
March 2012, no. 339

Reaching One Thousand: A Story of love, motherhood and autism by Rachel Robertson

Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 240 pp

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At some stage in every workshop on the art of memoir somebody raises the question of ethics, of privacy, and of who has the right to tell a version of a story. How far, the author of Reaching One Thousand asks, is she prepared to ‘sacrifice other people’s privacy’? What betrayals will she ‘perpetrate on others’?

 


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Reaching One Thousand: A Story of love, motherhood and autism by Rachel Robertson

Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 240 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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