This Stranger, My Son: A Mother's Story [Hardcover]

Louise Wilson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 247 pages
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd (January 1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0719518717
• ISBN-13: 978-0719518713
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,914,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Mother's Story, but yet simply, A Mothers Love, December 15, 2002

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Patricia Gombar (Delaware Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Stranger My Son (Paperback)

Deeply touching, this book took on a personal note, as I believe that it would all, mothers, fathers, and sibilings alike, that have dealt with the same one on one trials and tribulations of a family memeber diagnosed with Parinoid Schizophernia. From the simple moments that most take for granted, to the worst moments of fear and turmoil, this book moved me in ways that I can't even begin to describe.
Even Thirty-four years later, this mothers story is able to captivate one's heart.
Thankyou Louise Wilson, for helping me to better understand what it is that my own mother has gone through for all of these years, and for helping me through a traumatic time with my own handicapped son.
You are an angel from up above.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Still Moves me to Tears., September 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: This Stranger, My Son; A Mother's Story. (Hardcover)

I read this book as a child of nine in an excerpted version in 'The Reader's Digest' and I have never forgotten the anguish Jane suffered when Tony wiped jam all over her party dress. I managed to get a second-hand copy [...], and it went even deeper this time. I am a mother of a child in England who has ADHD, and thirty years on, the same tags were hung on us as they put on Louise and Jack - bad parent, dysfunctional family etc. Nothing's changed, at all. Deborah Spungen had the same experiences as Louise with her poor daughter Nancy ten years later, and it took the 'experts' just as long to diagnose Nancy Spungen with paranoid schizophrenia. I greatly admire the parents of these two lost children. Does anyone know if anything ever helped Tony as the book ends in 1968? Louise and Deborah, Tony and Nancy, you are in my prayers.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book Remembered After Many Years, January 27, 2009

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W. Avril (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Stranger My Son a Mothers Story (Paperback)

I read this book while in junior high school. The story pops into my mind every now and then as it did today after finishing "Hurry Down Sunshine". This isn't a review, just a moment to say that This Stranger My Son moved me at a young age and obviously made quite an impression to stick with me all these years. I recommend it.