Illuminated: Autism & All the Things I’Ve Left Unsaid - Hardcover

Melanie Sykes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0008591474 ISBN 13: 9780008591472

Publisher: HarperNorth, 2023

Synopsis

All the things I left unsaid…

Melanie Sykes has been a face on our screens, a voice on our radios for nearly thirty years. As a presenter and broadcaster people turned to her for her humour, her honesty and insight. But between all the interviews and chat shows, is a life unseen, a story unsaid.

Her journey – from up north to down south, from Manchester to LA and via London, Paris and India, and through the eye of the storm of celebrity culture is a rollercoaster ride. Sex, drugs and rock and roll, certainly, but also brass bands and ice cream vans, broken hearts and healing adventures – a search not for fame but for freedom.

Her autism diagnosis in midlife has supercharged that journey – and means this isn’t a story just of breakdown, but of breakthrough. Funny, furious and gloriously frank, this is a book that lifts the lid on being a woman in the media, navigating relationships, and being a neurodivergent person speaking up in a neurotypical world. Illuminated is Melanie, in her own inimitable voice.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperNorth
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008591474
• ISBN 13: 9780008591472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304