Illuminated: Autism & All The Things Ive left Unsaid

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You have to find your light and let it shine
Melanie Sykes has been a face on our screens, a voice on our radios for nearly thirty years. As a presenter and broadcaster people turned to her for her humour, her honesty and insight. But between all the interviews and chat shows, is a life unseen, a story unsaid.

Her journey from up north to down south, from Manchester to LA and via London, Paris and India, and through the eye of the storm of celebrity culture is a rollercoaster ride. Sex, drugs and rock and roll, certainly, but also brass bands and ice cream vans, broken hearts and healing adventures a search not for fame but for freedom.

Her autism diagnosis in midlife has supercharged that journey and means this isnt a story just of breakdown, but of breakthrough. Funny, furious and gloriously frank, this is a book that lifts the lid on being a woman in the media, the mother of autistic children, and a neurodivergent person speaking up in a neurotypical world. Illuminated is Melanie, in her own inimitable voice, sharing the dark and the light sides of her life, and how all of us can find that balance too.

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Melanie Sykes is a TV and radio presenter, interviewer, model, magazine founder and neurodivergency activist. Born in Lancashire, she now lives in London.