Awards

• Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 (UK)
• Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2013.
• Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013
• Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.
• Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Nonfiction 2013
• Shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Nonfiction 2013.
• Shortlisted for Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2014.
• Winner of Green Carnation Prize 2013.
• Winner of Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2014.

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Far from the Tree is a landmark, revolutionary book. Andrew Solomon plumbs his topic thoroughly, humanely, and in a compulsively readable style that makes the book as entertaining as it is illuminating. -- Jennifer Egan One of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent times - brave, compassionate and astonishingly humane. Solomon approaches one of the oldest questions - how much are we defined by nature versus nurture? - and crafts from it a gripping narrative. Through his stories, told with such masterful delicacy and lucidity, we learn how different we all are, and how achingly similar. I could not put this book down. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee A passionate and affecting work that will shake up your preconceptions and leave you in a better place. It's a book everyone should read. there's no one who wouldn't be a more imaginative and understanding parent - or human being - for having done so. breathtaking reading. -- Julie Myerson New York Times Andrew Solomon reminds us that nothing is more powerful in a child's development than the love of a parent. This remarkable new book introduces us to mothers and fathers - many in circumstances the rest of us can hardly imagine - who are making their children feel special, no matter what challenges come their way. -- President Bill Clinton Parenting, writes Andrew Solomon in Far from the Tree, is no sport for perfectionists. It's an irony of the book, 10 years in the making and his first since The Noonday Demon, that by militating against perfectionism, he only leaves the reader in greater awe of the art of the achievable. The book starts out as a study of parents raising difficult children, and ends up as an affirmation of what it is to be human. -- Emma Brockes Guardian

The tales Solomon returns with, of profound disability and extreme differences overcome, make it a bible of empathy and inclusion -- Cressida Connolly Spectator Andrew Solomon's Far From The Tree is a prodigious, illuminating book about the challenge of being a parent - especially when children are out of the ordinary -- Tim Adams Observer Life-affirming, thought provoking and highly readable, the book was compiled over 10 years of interviews and I found it deeply moving -- Kate Kellaway Observer Many accounts are desperately moving, but Solomon goes far beyond cheap pity... The book is an exquisite written study of parental love - as well as a how-to manual for receptivity -- Kerry Hudson Herald [A] magnificent study of disability and identity differences -- Susannah Meadows New York Times This wise book is a careful and surprising study of difference between parent and child and how it shapes our lives -- Stephen Grosz Sunday Telegraph For anyone struggling with decisions over parenting, it's an affirming reminder that there is no such thing as normal -- Femke Colborne Big Issue in the North Parents - especially mothers - are the heroes of this book, many of them describing with extraordinary absence of self-pity how they have coped with almost unimaginable adversity -- Dominic Lawson Sunday Times Solomon really makes you think... Uniquely brilliant -- William Leith Evening Standard Beautiful The Times

The tales Solomon returns with, of profound disability and extreme differences overcome, make it a bible of empathy and inclusion -- Cressida Connolly Spectator Andrew Solomon's Far From The Tree is a prodigious, illuminating book about the challenge of being a parent - especially when children are out of the ordinary -- Tim Adams Observer Life-affirming, thought provoking and highly readable, the book was compiled over 10 years of interviews and I found it deeply moving -- Kate Kellaway Observer Many accounts are desperately moving, but Solomon goes far beyond cheap pity... The book is an exquisite written study of parental love - as well as a how-to manual for receptivity -- Kerry Hudson Herald Far from the Tree is a landmark, revolutionary book. Andrew Solomon plumbs his topic thoroughly, humanely, and in a compulsively readable style that makes the book as entertaining as it is illuminating. -- Jennifer Egan

The tales Solomon returns with, of profound disability and extreme differences overcome, make it a bible of empathy and inclusion -- Cressida Connolly Spectator Andrew Solomon's Far From The Tree is a prodigious, illuminating book about the challenge of being a parent - especially when children are out of the ordinary -- Tim Adams Observer Life-affirming, thought provoking and highly readable, the book was compiled over 10 years of interviews and I found it deeply moving -- Kate Kellaway Observer Many accounts are desperately moving, but Solomon goes far beyond cheap pity... The book is an exquisite written study of parental love - as well as a how-to manual for receptivity -- Kerry Hudson Herald [A] magnificent study of disability and identity differences -- Susannah Meadows New York Times This wise book is a careful and surprising study of difference between parent and child and how it shapes our lives -- Stephen Grosz Sunday Telegraph For anyone struggling with decisions over parenting, it's an affirming reminder that there is no such thing as normal -- Femke Colborne Big Issue in the North Far from the Tree is a landmark, revolutionary book. Andrew Solomon plumbs his topic thoroughly, humanely, and in a compulsively readable style that makes the book as entertaining as it is illuminating. -- Jennifer Egan One of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent times - brave, compassionate and astonishingly humane. Solomon approaches one of the oldest questions - how much are we defined by nature versus nurture? - and crafts from it a gripping narrative. Through his stories, told with such masterful delicacy and lucidity, we learn how different we all are, and how achingly similar. I could not put this book down. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee A passionate and affecting work that will shake up your preconceptions and leave you in a better place. It's a book everyone should read. there's no one who wouldn't be a more imaginative and understanding parent - or human being - for having done so. breathtaking reading. -- Julie Myerson New York Times

Author Information

Andrew Solomon is a writer and activist working on politics, culture and psychology. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, Newsweek, and the Guardian. He is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Cornell University and Special Adviser on LGBT Affairs to Yale University's Department of Psychiatry. The Noonday Demon won the 2001 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. His highly-acclaimed study of family, Far from the Tree won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction, the Lukas Book Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, among others. He lives with his husband and son in New York and London.

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