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Numbers are his world, autism his challenge, genius his story.

Born On a Blue Day

The Gift of an Extraordinary Mind

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    304 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2007

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Summary

I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, because the date is blue in my mind and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number nine or the sound of loud voices arguing.

Like the character Hoffman portrayed, he can perform extraordinary maths in his head, sees numbers as shapes, colours, textures and motions, and can learn to speak a language fluently from scratch in three days. He also has a compulsive need for order and routine. He eats exactly 45 grams o…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340899755
ISBN-10:0340899751
Author:Daniel Tammet
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:1 September 2007
Weight:210g
Dimensions:200mm x 130mm x 18mm
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Critics Review

‘You close BORN ON A BLUE DAY with a sense of profound admiration’

A memoir of outstanding lucidity and charm - The Sunday Times

You close BORN ON A BLUE DAY with a sense of profound admiration - The Daily Mail

A charmingly precise, tenderly honest account - The Daily Express

Remarkable - Independent on Sunday

Admirably modest but affecting autobiography by a man blessed with incredible mental gifts but struggling with Asperger’s - The Sunday Times - top choice of books ‘you really must read’

So elegantly written… he tells his story dead straight - Daily Telegraph

In BORN ON A BLUE DAY, both his difficulties and his awakening consciousness of himself and others are charted. The miracle is that he wrote it himself. It has a strange, quiet beauty - Scotland on Sunday

Tammet’s writing is eloquent and moving but always uncomplicated. And he succeeds in stripping away much of the misunderstanding and confusion that surrounds the unusual way autistic savants view the world - Radio Times

About The Author

Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet has been working with scientists to understand the implications of his condition for neuroscience and our understanding of consciousness. He also runs a web-based diagnostic site for people with autism and lives in Kent with his partner.

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