Thought deaf and assessed as psychotic at the age of 2 in 1965, four year old Donna's main carers are gone when her grandfather dies and her grandmother is sent away. Now, left in a wild, obsessive and alcoholic atmosphere Donna's mother has a plan for the feral child and she is put on course with the goal of transforming her into a pretty and perfect dancing doll.

But Donna is not as alone as she seems. Along her idiosyncratic road to survival she has collected two 'ghosts' to fight her battles for her; Willie the fighter and the smiling facade of Carol.

Carol plays the mother's doll, intertwined with Willie's violent and defensive outbursts and fierce self protection mechanisms. Between Donna's autistic responses and behaviours, Carol, behaves like people on TV sit-coms, goes to school, even goes through the motions of 'friends', and develops a broad range of mimicked speech, stored phrases and charicatures, saving Donna from a life in an institution and often from the very real threat of death.

As the teenage years approach Carol and Willie fight it out for control of the body with the real Donna on the sidelines as the lot of them drift into homelessness, poverty and domestic prostitution passed from stranger to stranger.

After an attempted suicide Donna falls into the care of a psychiatrist and goes on to get a university education. But knowledge is not wisdom and without independence skills, Donna follows a stranger across the ocean where, on arrival, he abandons her to an itinerant bag-lady existence throughout Europe. This second journey begins with a man who will change her life and sense of self forever as she meets and falls in love with a real life 'mirror' with the same challenges as her own. Later, faced with the loss of this first deep love, she goes on a desperate and dangerous quest to find out 'what kind of mad' she is in the hope that she can change it and as a result finds out she is autistic; a realisation that ends up changing the field of Developmental Disabilities forever.

An international number one bestseller, with 15 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and published in 20 languages throughout the world, Nobody Nowhere is a moving, gripping, surreal, myth-shattering, sometimes hilarious but ultimately uplifting book and one that will stay with you as one of the most moving and exceptional works you will ever read. Life, 'normality' and 'reality' will not be the same after you read this book.

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