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A fascinating and touching memoir from real-life Rain Man, Daniel Tammet, who has the extremely rare condition Savant Syndrome

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'A memoir of outstanding lucidity and charm' * The Sunday Times *
'You close BORN ON A BLUE DAY with a sense of profound admiration' * The Daily Mail *
'A charmingly precise, tenderly honest account' * The Daily Express *
'Remarkable' * Independent on Sunday *
'Admirably modest but affecting autobiography by a man blessed with incredible mental gifts but struggling with Asperger's' * The Sunday Times - top choice of books 'you really must read' *
'So elegantly written... he tells his story dead straight' * Daily Telegraph *
'In BORN ON A BLUE DAY, both his difficulties and his awakening consciousness of himself and others are charted. The miracle is that he wrote it himself. It has a strange, quiet beauty' * Scotland on Sunday *
'Tammet's writing is eloquent and moving but always uncomplicated. And he succeeds in stripping away much of the misunderstanding and confusion that surrounds the unusual way autistic savants view the world' * Radio Times *

Born On a Blue Day

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      Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
      Published 22 February 2007
      ISBN-13 9780340899755
      978-0340899755
      ISBN-10 0340899751
      Also in:
      Autobiography: adventurers and explorers Autobiography: science, technology and medicine

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A fascinating and touching memoir from real-life Rain Man, Daniel Tammet, who has the extremely rare condition Savant Syndrome

      Trade Review
      'A memoir of outstanding lucidity and charm' * The Sunday Times *
      'You close BORN ON A BLUE DAY with a sense of profound admiration' * The Daily Mail *
      'A charmingly precise, tenderly honest account' * The Daily Express *
      'Remarkable' * Independent on Sunday *
      'Admirably modest but affecting autobiography by a man blessed with incredible mental gifts but struggling with Asperger's' * The Sunday Times - top choice of books 'you really must read' *
      'So elegantly written... he tells his story dead straight' * Daily Telegraph *
      'In BORN ON A BLUE DAY, both his difficulties and his awakening consciousness of himself and others are charted. The miracle is that he wrote it himself. It has a strange, quiet beauty' * Scotland on Sunday *
      'Tammet's writing is eloquent and moving but always uncomplicated. And he succeeds in stripping away much of the misunderstanding and confusion that surrounds the unusual way autistic savants view the world' * Radio Times *

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