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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 My Life in a Pea Soup
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'My Life in a Pea Soup follows one mother's journey to reach her profoundly autistic daughter. Set against the backdrop of three countries - Sri Lanka, Bahrain and Australia - this book will appeal to anyone who has experienced heartbreak and then found a way to not only help themselves, but to help those dearest to them.

'The memoir chronicles Lisa's journey across many countries with her husband Michael and her daughter Sally. Lisa struggles to understand why her beautiful daughter does not act like other toddlers. Lisa and Michael experience cultural clashes and comical moments, all told through the lens of caring for a daughter who is different to the rest. Fighting for years to receive an official diagnosis for something they do not even have a name for, they are thrown headlong into a medicalised world they never knew existed.

'Baffled and bewildered, Lisa eventually embarks on a home-program for Sally that touches everyone in the family. Sally becomes much easier to manage while Lisa and her husband learn to navigate their way through the misty madness of the profoundly autistic world. By reaching Sally, they find the will and strength to help themselves. Their fogs lift and they discover the contentment and happiness that for so long had eluded them.' (From the publisher's website.)

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Autism.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view First person (autobiographical, not the disabled character).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Warriewood, Northern Beaches area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Finch , 2012 .
      Extent: 1v.p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 21 May 2012.
      ISBN: 9781921462320

Works about this Work

Intimate View of a Closed World Christopher Bantick , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 July 2012; (p. 30-31)

— Review of My Life in a Pea Soup Lisa Nops , 2012 single work autobiography ; The Lost Woman Sydney Smith , 2012 single work autobiography
Non Fiction Christina Houen , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 - 8 July 2012; (p. 23)

— Review of My Life in a Pea Soup Lisa Nops , 2012 single work autobiography
Off the Shelf : Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 16 June 2012; (p. 34)

— Review of My Life in a Pea Soup Lisa Nops , 2012 single work autobiography
Off the Shelf : Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 16 June 2012; (p. 34)

— Review of My Life in a Pea Soup Lisa Nops , 2012 single work autobiography
Non Fiction Christina Houen , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 - 8 July 2012; (p. 23)

— Review of My Life in a Pea Soup Lisa Nops , 2012 single work autobiography
Intimate View of a Closed World Christopher Bantick , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 July 2012; (p. 30-31)

— Review of My Life in a Pea Soup Lisa Nops , 2012 single work autobiography ; The Lost Woman Sydney Smith , 2012 single work autobiography
Last amended 30 Apr 2018 11:43:58
Subjects:
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    Sri Lanka,
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    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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    Bahrain,
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    Arabian peninsula, Middle East, Asia,
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    Australia,
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