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Marti Leimbach is the author of several novels, including the international bestseller Dying Young, which was made into a major motion picture starring Julia Roberts. Born in Washington, D.C., she attended the Creative Writing program at the University of California, Irvine, and Harvard University. Her new novel Age of Consent is to be published in June, 2016. She currently lives in England and teaches at Oxford University's Creative Writing program.
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Daniel Isn't Talking is taken very much from your own life. How
much do you have in common with the mother in the book?
I went through a very similar experience to that of Melanie, who is the mother
of an autistic boy in the novel. For example, I was certain there was something
wrong with my child for quite some time before the actual diagnosis, and yet
nobody seemed to believe me. I began to think that there was something wrong
with me as I was so anxious all the time. Eventually, we discovered that our son
was autistic. That did not ease my anxiety, of course, but at least it made me
understand that I wasn't going crazy. And at last I was able to focus on the
problem at hand, however awful that problem was. All this went directly into
Daniel Isn't Talking.
What was that like, the pre-diagnosis time?
In some ways, I look back on the years before the diagnosis as a kind of dreamy
idyllic space in my life. Nobody could have been happier than I was driving the
children to farm parks, listening to Peter Pan on the CD player and singing,
"I
can fly, I can fly!" I was that besotted by motherhood. But then, things started
going wrong. Our son was ill very often: ear ...
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