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Book SynopsisA 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 *
