Shtum by Jem Lester About the Book When Ben and Emma fake a separation - a strategic decision to further Jonah's case in an upcoming tribunal - Ben and Jonah move in with Georg, Ben's elderly Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. · Jem Lester is a former journalist and teacher of English and media studies. He is father to a severely autistic son, the experience of which led to the writing of his debut novel, www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. Shtum keeps unfolding and unfolding like a set of matryoshka dolls and each painful revelation endears the characters to us more. Jem Lester is a wonderful and compassionate writer.
Shtum by Jem Lester review - a vivid debut about life with an autistic child This exhilarating roller coaster ride portrays the love, guilt, exhaustion and rage felt by the parents of a boy with. Funny, heartbreaking and uplifting, SHTUM is a novel about three generations of a family learning how to get along. What readers are saying about this heartwarming book from Jem Lester: 'This book has gone onto my all-time favourite list' 'I laughed, got angry and cried in places.' 'This is a book that will stay with me for a very long time.'. Introduction. Funny and heartbreaking in equal measure, the impassioned debut novel about fathers, sons, and autism. In the "literary territory of Tony Parsons and Nick Hornby" (Guardian) Shtum is drawn from Jem Lester's experience of raising an autistic www.doorway.ru this darkly funny and emotive debut, Ben Jewell has hit a breaking point.
Praise for the heartwarming novel of Jem Lester writes so beautifully, it feels as if you're eavesdropping on a conversation. Shtum is a book with true heart and soul, and I loved every word -- Joanna Cannon, author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP A darker, sadder version of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, but just as moving * OBSERVER * Angry and fiercely funny. Jem Lester is the author of Shtum ( avg rating, ratings, reviews, published ), Cisza ( avg rating, 9 ratings, 2 reviews, published 2. Four decades later, Jem Lester, the father of a profoundly autistic teenager, has written Shtum, an updated but no less harrowing and angry novel about what it means to be the parent of a child.
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