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Title: hated it
Review: I have cerebral palsy and, until the last pages, I mostly enjoyed this book; although I thought Shaun's genius and so on was rather unlikely - total recall *and* out-of-body experience? Come on, Mr Trueman ... I saw somewhere that you said children always believe Shaun's still alive because he's narrating the book. But I'm old enough to have learnt the concept of the unreliable narrator. If he's trapped inside that body how come he's writing? If he can have an out-of-body experience when he's alive, why not when he's dead? No, Mr Trueman, no. Why do disabled characters in fiction always have to have some stunning compensatory ability? Why can't they be allowed to get past the last page? Could it be because the able-bodied world would rather they weren't there ...?
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