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**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014**

Sometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it does?

About the Author

Andrew Solomon is a writer and activist working on politics, culture and psychology. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, Newsweek, and the Guardian. He is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Cornell University and Special Adviser on LGBT Affairs to Yale University's Department of Psychiatry. The Noonday Demon won the 2001 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. His highly-acclaimed study of family, Far from the Tree won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction, the Lukas Book Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, among others. He lives with his husband and son in New York and London.

Reviews

The tales Solomon returns with, of profound disability and extreme differences overcome, make it a bible of empathy and inclusion
*Spectator*

Andrew Solomon’s Far From The Tree is a prodigious, illuminating book about the challenge of being a parent – especially when children are out of the ordinary
*Observer*

Life-affirming, thought provoking and highly readable, the book was compiled over 10 years of interviews and I found it deeply moving
*Observer*

Many accounts are desperately moving, but Solomon goes far beyond cheap pity... The book is an exquisite written study of parental love – as well as "a how-to manual for receptivity"
*Herald*

[A] magnificent study of disability and identity differences
*New York Times*

This wise book is a careful and surprising study of difference between parent and child and how it shapes our lives
*Sunday Telegraph*

For anyone struggling with decisions over parenting, it’s an affirming reminder that there is no such thing as “normal”
*Big Issue in the North*

Parents – especially mothers – are the heroes of this book, many of them describing with extraordinary absence of self-pity how they have coped with almost unimaginable adversity
*Sunday Times*

Solomon really makes you think... Uniquely brilliant
*Evening Standard*

Beautiful
*The Times*