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What the Record Cannot Hold
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A powerful contemporary British literary novel about autism, SEND, parental advocacy and the truths that official records cannot contain.
Rayan Mir has spent months writing to a school that answers every letter and answers none of them.
His son Ilyas cannot bear the polyester jumper, the hard label at the neck, the dining hall, the forms, the meetings and the careful phrases that turn distress into presentation, silence into being settled, and need into something still awaiting review.
At home, the record is held differently: the third step from the bottom of the stairs, the wooden owl, the cold kettle, the uneaten chickpeas, the phone log, the folded form, the back of the kitchen chair where the jumper had been. These are the facts no school file knows how to keep.
As letters become forms, forms become files, and files become the grammar of decision-making, one family is drawn into the machinery of school, local authority, safeguarding, tribunal and complaint. Every word matters. Every omission travels. Every professional surface claims to record the child while missing the life underneath it.
Written with restraint, precision and moral force, What the Record Cannot Hold is a contemporary literary novel about autism, education, family, institutional language, parental witness and the cost of being translated into records by systems that do not know what they are failing to see.
Some stories do not fit inside a form. Some truths refuse to be filed away.
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