Memoir

Dancing on his own

Item: Reaching One Thousand
Author: Carmel Bird

by Carmel Bird •

March 2012, no. 339

Reaching One Thousand: A Story of love, motherhood and autism by Rachel Robertson

Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 240 pp

Memoir

Dancing on his own

by Carmel Bird •

March 2012, no. 339

At some stage in every workshop on the art of memoir somebody raises the question of ethics, of privacy, and of who has the right to tell a version of a story. How far, the author of Reaching One Thousand asks, is she prepared to ‘sacrifice other people’s privacy’? What betrayals will she ‘perpetrate on others’?

Carmel Bird

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Carmel Bird is the author of Writing the Story of Your Life (2007). Her recent novel is Child of the Twilight (2010), and her children’s picture book Fabulous Finola Fox has just been published.