Eleanor Birne

Eleanor Birne is a literary agent. She is working on a book, provisionally titled The Women who Built Virago.

Doing Chatting: Asperger’s

Eleanor Birne, 9 October 2003

When my grandmother found out my mother was going to marry my father, she asked my mother to reconsider. ‘What about David?’ she said. ‘Wouldn’t you like to marry David instead?’ David is my father’s brother. He still lives alone in the council house my grandmother died in. He used to hear voices; schizophrenia was suspected until it turned out that he was...

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