Author Tom Newlands on Neurodiversity, New Towns and Becoming a Novelist at 40

Author Tom Newlands on neurodiversity, new towns and becoming a novelist at 40

Author Tom Newlands tells us about his latest novel Something Like Happiness, which is set in a Scottish new town, and how being diagnosed with ADHD changed his life.

Something Like Happiness by Tom Newlands review – a tender take on hard times, anger and autism

A twentysomething Scottish couple care for their autistic son in the bleak follow-up to Only Here, Only Now Frazer and Caitlin have been emotionally entwined since schooldays. Now in their mid-20s, and parents of a five-year-old, they live in a grotty flat in a Scottish new town – the faded posters read “Happiness, Here” –…