Library Thursdays: "Up Close"

We're introducing a little order into this blog, by offering a post every Thursday featuring an item (or maybe a few) from the DS NSW library - one of our most valuable resources to support and inform families.

First up is a new acquisition, a very attractive book of written and photographic reflections of the relationship between a mother and her daughter who has Down syndrome. It's not actually about the Down syndrome - it's about the relationship:

Up Close - a mother's view, by Fiona Yaron-Field, Bunker Hill Publishing, 2008

It is available for loan to DS NSW members from our library

London Metropolitan University article.

More of Fiona Field's work:

Shifting Perspectives Exhibition, London

Fiona Yaron -Field's story about Ophir on Learning About Intellectual Disability

Edit 4/12/2008: an extract is available here on the Guardian UK website.