Words Fail Us by Jonty Claypole - 9781788161718

Words Fail UsIn Defence of Disfluency\nAuthor(s): Jonty Claypole\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wellcome Collection\nISBN-13: 9781788161718, 978-1788161718\nSynopsis\n'TIMELY' David Mitchell \n\n'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES \n\n'ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I READ IT.' Owen Sheers\n\n'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND WISE... A LIBERATING BOOK' Colm Toibin\n\nIn an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what if hyper-fluency is not only unachievable but undesirable? \n\n Jonty Claypole spent fifteen years of his life in and out of extreme speech therapy. From sessions with child psychologists to lengthy stuttering boot camps and exposure therapies, he tried everything until finally being told the words he'd always feared: 'We can't cure your stutter.' Those words started him on a journey towards not only making pea.