With respect to Mark Haddon, it might be the benefit of fourteen years life experience and having worked
with autistic children since I read The Curious Incident... and it might be having a child of my own, but I really felt that in Ginny Moon the author Benjamin Ludwig had crafted something much more involving.
No one doubts that
since the early 1990s the number of
children diagnosed
with autism has dramatically increased, a trend reflected in U.S. special education programs, where
children enrolled as
autistic grew from 22,445 in 1994 — 1995 to 140,254 in 2003 — 2004.