Let Me Hear Your Voice
by Catherine Maurice
★ Top 25 book of 1993 · #14 on Best Books of 1993
A mother recounts her daughter Anne-Marie's autism diagnosis after the child withdrew and lost words she had learned. The family endures false hopes and blame before intensive behavioral therapy helps their daughter.
Best for: Parents and caregivers seeking a personal account of facing a child's autism
Let Me Hear Your Voice is #14 on BookWard's Best Books of 1993, out of 36 1993 books that cleared our data bar.
What Let Me Hear Your Voice is about
Catherine Maurice tells the story of her daughter Anne-Marie, a delicate, graceful child who laughed, picked up words and learned to walk in her first year. Then she began to withdraw, lost some of her speech, cried without comfort and stopped noticing the people around her. Doctors diagnosed autism.
The family's search for help led through false hopes and so-called miracle cures, along with hints that they were somehow to blame. The book follows that struggle from a mother's point of view, ending with the intensive behavioral therapy that the publisher credits with saving her daughter. It will speak most to parents facing a new diagnosis, and to anyone who wants to understand what that experience feels like from the inside.
Let Me Hear Your Voice on the Best Books of 1993
Let Me Hear Your Voice came out in 1993. Of the 36 books first published in 1993 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #14 on our Best Books of 1993 list.
Why it made the list: 199 readers have shelved it on Open Library. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
Nearby on the 1993 list
- The Fires of Heaven Robert Jordan, #12
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes Stephen King, #13
- Ageless Body, Timeless Mind Deepak Chopra, #15
- Mieko and the Fifth Treasure Eleanor Coerr, #16
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 178 want to read it, 15 are reading it now and 6 have read it, according to Open Library.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 47 | 55% |
| Reader love | 58 | 25% |
| Being read right now | 72 | 20% |
Questions about Let Me Hear Your Voice
When was Let Me Hear Your Voice published?
Let Me Hear Your Voice by Catherine Maurice was first published in 1993.
Was Let Me Hear Your Voice one of the best books of 1993?
Let Me Hear Your Voice is #14 on BookWard's Best Books of 1993, out of 36 1993 books that cleared our data bar. 199 readers have shelved it on Open Library.
Why is Let Me Hear Your Voice on the Best Books of 1993 list?
199 readers have shelved it on Open Library.
More of the best books of 1993
- The Giver Lois Lowry, #1
- The Scam Debashis Basu, #2
- Along Came a Spider James Patterson, #3
- A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth, #4
- Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen, #5
- Understanding Comics Scott McCloud, #6
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How we know
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