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Jane Alison Sherwin's honest and uplifting account provides insight
into the challenges of bringing up a child with Pathological Demand
Avoidance (PDA). After years of misdiagnosis, Jane's daughter,
Mollie, was diagnosed with PDA at the age of seven, and we follow
her experiences pre and post diagnosis to age 10 as she attends
school, interacts with the outside world and approaches
adolescence. Throughout, Jane provides commentary on her daughter's
behaviour and the impact it has on her family, explaining the 'why'
of PDA traits, including the need for control, meltdowns, obsessive
behaviour and sensory issues. She reveals the strategies that have
worked for Mollie and provides essential advice and information on
obtaining a diagnosis and raising awareness of PDA. The book also
includes an interview with Mollie. Full of advice and support, and
with a focus on understanding the child and how he or she sees the
world, this book will be of immeasurable value to the parents and
families of children with PDA as well as the professionals working
with them, particularly teachers and teaching assistants, SEN
co-ordinators, psychologists, outreach workers and social workers.
This landmark volume offers a major re-assessment of the art that
emerged in Britain in the twenty years following the end of the
Second World War: a period of anxiety, profound social change and
explosive creativity. Published to coincide with the Barbican
Centre's 40th anniversary, it draws together the work of fifty
artists, exploring a period straddled precariously between the
horror of the past and the promise of the future. Spanning
painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography,
Postwar Modern will explore a rich field of experiment which
challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this
time. Through new texts by Jane Alison, Hilary Floe, Ben Highmore,
Hammad Nassar and Greg Salter, the book looks afresh at celebrated
artists such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud and
Eduardo Paolozzi, shown in dialogue with lesser-known figures.
These will include those, like Francis Newton Souza, Avinash
Chandra and Robert Adams, who were acclaimed by contemporaries but
neglected in subsequent history-making; others, like Kim Lim, Anwar
Jalal Shemza and Franciszka Themerson, are only now attracting the
attention they deserve. Throughout their work, vital shared
preoccupations become visible: gender, class, race and nationhood;
the body, the bombsite, and the home. It is a period resonating
strongly with our own: as the UK emerges from more than a decade of
austerity and confronts the challenges of post-pandemic
reconstruction, society is asking similarly deep questions about
who we want and need to be.
When Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed
like its mirror: a father in the Foreign Service, a beautiful
mother, and two little girls. The youngest girls from each
family--one of them Jane--even shared a birthday.
With so much in common, the two families became almost instantly
inseparable. Within months, affairs had ignited between the adults,
and before long the pairs had exchanged partners--divorced,
remarried, and moved on. As if in a cataclysm of nature, two
families were ripped asunder, and two new ones were formed. Two
pairs of girls were left in shock, a "silent, numb shock, like a
crack inside stone, not enough to split it but inside, silently
fissuring." And Jane and her stepsister were thrown into a state of
silent combat for the affections of their absent fathers--a contest
that, for one of them at least, would prove tragic.
Readers drawn to "The Glass Castle" will be moved by Alison's
stunning emotional insight as she recounts the intimate
devastations of family betrayal.
In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Natives and Exotics
follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, as they
wander a world scarred by colonialism.
Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice,
the child of diplomats, is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a
country her parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier,
Alice's newlywed grandmother Violet confronts troubling traces of
her country's past as she makes a home in the wilds of Australia.
And before that, in early nineteenth-century Scotland, Violet's
great-great-grandfather George flees the violence of the Clearances
for the Portuguese Azores, unaware that he will have a hand in
destroying the earthly paradise there.
The third novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The
Marriage of the Sea and The Love-Artist, Natives and Exotics is a
hypnotic meditation on our passionate, uneasy affair with nature,
in which we restlessly search for home.
In a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo contemplates the ravages of time
to his body and his beloved city. In New York, Lach savors his
freedom, having just dropped Vera to join his new love, Francesca,
in Venice. In rainy London, Max packs for New Orleans, in pursuit
of Lucinde, a woman he barely knows. From New Orleans, Lucinde
flies to the aid and comfort of Vera, who has accepted a grant to
paint in Venice. While elsewhere in the Crescent City, Anton,
leaving for Venice, sketches a good-bye upon the slumbering body of
his wife, Josephine. With wit, sympathy, and surpassing deftness,
Jane Alison choreographs an intricate dance among these characters,
whom love and loneliness, aspiration and desperation, have drawn to
two famously romantic, venal, and elusive cities of water.
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