In a pre-Internet world where most people don't yet have email, most autistic adults still don't know each other exist and believe they are the only ones like themselves in the entire world.

After a life of abuse, homelessness and poverty Donna Williams has wandered her way back to Australia and finally found the answer to 'what kind of mad am I'. The words of her childhood like deaf, psychotic, disturbed now join the line behind a formal diagnosis as Autistic as she stumbles upon and enters into therapy with an eccentric an innovative psychologist, Theo Marek. Together, they try to understand each other with astoundingly different language, concepts, realities and 'normality', viewing each other as one might an alien.

Having finally discovered the population she has been kept from all her life, Donna develops a small town dream and determines with her IQ of under 70 to become a teacher and change and advance the world of Developmental Disabilities and how those with them are treated in Special Education and beyond. This journey is fraught with struggles and innovative adaptations as Dr Marek helps her achieve that dream. A graduated teacher, Donna's journey into autistic schools introduces her to a remarkable range of children and young adults with autism.

But the manuscript of her first book remains in a tea chest in England, a copy of it left with a stranger who, unknown to her, has forwarded it on. And soon a fax arrives through the post from a literary agent with a copy of that book in his hands. The book she wrote only for herself, filled with darkness and shame and surreal idiosyncrasy of her Autistic world is set to become an international bestseller and propel the woman terrified of being 'known' out of the shadows and straight into the limelight as one of the most famous people ever diagnosed with Autism in the world.

Donna's Williams' second number one international bestseller in the mainstream publishing world, Somebody Somewhere is the soaring triumph eagerly awaited by fans of her first book, Nobody Nowhere.