Illuminated : all the things I left unsaid
Sykes, Melanie2024
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Melanie Sykes has lived most of her life in the public eye. But after a lifetime of being seen - as model, chat show host and broadcaster, Melanie walked away from that career to spend her time helping others be heard, as a campaigner for women's rights and an advocate for neurodiversity. Then, at 52, Melanie got her own diagnosis of autism and it flicked a switch in her own life. It cast a new light on her own journey - from her Lancashire childhood, growing up in a musical mixed-race family, to her modelling career and ringside seat on celebrity culture as she became a star of TV and radio. But it also illuminated the other side of her story - her struggle to be heard, her heartbreaks and challenges, her self-medicating and trauma. Finally unmasking has given Melanie the courage to tell her story in her own words for the first time.
Main title:
Illuminated : all the things I left unsaid / Melanie Sykes.
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Imprint:
Manchester : HarperNorth, 2024.
Collation:
304 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.Illustration on inside covers.
ISBN:
9780008591502 (pbk)
Dewey class:
616.858820092616.85882616.8 SYKEB/SYK616.858
LC class:
RC553.A88
Local class:
B SYK
Language:
English
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BRN:
3811558