Bøger af Thelma Wheatley

The true story of how the author's autistic son Julian became violent, self-mutilating and psychotic in his teenage years. The parents finally turned to an innovative Toronto doctor, Dr Joseph Huggins, who helped Julian overcome his rage attacks with an innovative low-dose drug protocol. Today Julian is a happy, well-adjusted young man in his forties, free of drugs, with three community jobs. . Thelma is an award winning Canadian author. She was born and educated in South Wales UK and attended Aberystwyth University. She now lives in the Greater Toronto Area. "My Sad Is All Gone is essential reading for anybody who needs to learn about pharmacological treatments for severe rage in teenagers and adults with autism." Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures.

When British immigrant Selena Jones marries Aidan Gilmor, a Sinhalese-Eurasian -- part British -- from Sri Lanka in the 1960s in Toronto, a passionate clash of culture ensues. Selena's mother in Wales is horrified when Selena brings Aidan home to Wales for the wedding. Back in Toronto, Selena faces further prejudice and disapproval of her "mixed marriage," despite Pierre Elliott Trudeau's new "multiculturalism," which was being encouraged but also resented. She is shocked not only by the reaction of neighbours but by the teachers at the all-White school in Toronto where she teaches, and she pretends that Aidan is a White Canadian. When two poor West Indian and two East Indian children from a new government housing project nearby unexpectedly arrive at the school, Selena is forced to take a stand in their defence. Gradually she learns to face her fears and confront racism. She is drawn into a deeper understanding of her Sri Lankan family, and especially of her father-in-law, a former tea planter under the British, who left Ceylon after Independence in 1956. She sees the effect of colonialism on Aidan and his family, trying to be "British" while caught in the middle of the civil war conflict in Sri Lanka. The revelation of her father-in-law's secret guilt about the past leads to an inevitable and shocking climax.