Ollie: The True Story of a Brief and Courageous Life
by Stephen Venables
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages416 pages
ISBN
9780099478799
Published
2007
Description
Like the swallows, our son ollie came in the spring and left in the autumn. Dancing, singing, swooping - there was something birdlike about his energy, joy and laughter - but also the fleeting, enigmatic quality of his l...Like the swallows, our son ollie came in the spring and left in the autumn. Dancing, singing, swooping - there was something birdlike about his energy, joy and laughter - but also the fleeting, enigmatic quality of his life. When he was two he lost all his speech, as autism turned his life - and ours - into a baffling challenge.