Thursday 17 March 2011

BBC - Novel skills overcome dyslexia for Plymouth author

BBC - Novel skills overcome dyslexia for Plymouth author


Sarah Turton describes herself as a "dyslexic doodler".

When Sarah was diagnosed as dyslexic in 2001, at the age of 32, all those years of not being able to put her thoughts into written words suddenly made sense.

But rather then a hindrance, she says her condition is a creative tool which she can use in her books.

"The one comment I get is that my writing is vivid and alive," said Sarah. "I just chuck things down and somehow it works, I think."

Sarah, from Plymouth, has just written her second book, Aporia, and with her husband Szymon has set up a publishing house, Selchie Print.

Aporia
Aporia is Sarah's second book

Her first book, Beyond the Lemon Tree, was published in 2008. It was, she says, "her reality".


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