Scottish writer Tom Newlands turns his own autism into a coming-of-age debut
In "Ici, maintenant," Newlands draws on his own experience to portray a neurodivergent teenage girl trying to escape poverty in 1990s Scotland, according to Le Monde.
Le Monde reports that the Scottish author Tom Newlands has built his first novel on the material of his own life, using his autism and his personal trajectory as the foundation for a coming-of-age story described by the newspaper as striking.
The book, published in French under the title "Ici, maintenant," follows a neurodivergent teenage girl in 1990s Scotland who is trying to pull herself out of precarious circumstances, according to the same source.
Le Monde offers no further detail on the novel's plot, its original English-language title, or its publisher, so those specifics cannot be confirmed here.
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