{"product_id":"siri-with-love","title":"Siri, with Love","description":"\n\n\n'Incredibly moving' Daily Mail\n'To Siri with Love is a beautifully honest and illuminating love letter to Gus, your typical atypical nonneurotypical human.' Jon Stewart'A moving and witty memoir with a big heart.' Nigella Lawson\n'For all the raw, honest pain of Newman's book, you close it with a sense of optimism and tenderness.' Daily Telegraph'An uncommonly riotous and moving book [that] will make readers laugh - yes, out loud - before sweeping them, finally, into a soul-spilling high tide . . . Technology's great promise may in fact be to summon, capture and display our most human qualities, both the darkness and the light, to pave avenues of deepened connections with others.' New York Times\nNo one would consider Judith Newman's domestic life normal. She and her husband keep separate apartments-his filled with twin grand pianos as befits a former opera singer; hers packed with the clutter and chaos of twin adolescent boys conceived late in life. And one of those boys is Gus, her sweet, complicated, autistic 13-year-old.\nWith honesty and humour, To Siri With Love chronicles one year in the life of Gus and the family around him -- a family with the same crazy ups and downs as any other. And at the heart of the book lies Gus's passionate friendship with Siri, Apple's 'intelligent personal assistant'. Unlike her human counterparts, Siri always has the right answers to Gus's incessant stream of questions about the intricacies of national rail schedules, or box turtle varieties, and she never runs out of patience. She always makes sure Gus enunciates and even teaches him manners by way of her warm yet polite tone and her programmed insistence on civility.\nEqual parts funny and touching, this is a book that will make your heart brim, and then break it. Warm, wise and always honest, Judith Newman shows us a new world where artificial intelligence is beginning to meet emotional intelligence -- a world that will shape our children in ways both wonderful and unexpected.\n\n\nReview\n\n\nTo Siri with Love is a beautifully honest and illuminating love letter to Gus, your typical atypical non neurotypical human. (Jon Stewart)\n\nA moving and witty memoir with a big heart. (Nigella Lawson)\n\n\nWriting with wit, humor, and effervescent honesty . . . This odd yet endearing pairing comprises the book's rewarding and adorable closing third, a funny, warmhearted narrative of wry wisdom derived from the foibles of both Gus and Henry and powered by a maternal love that autism could never compromise. \"In a world where the commonly-held wisdom is that technology isolates us,\" writes the author, \"it's worth considering another side of the story.\"\nA powerful and heartfelt 'slice of life' tale. (\nKirkus Review)\n\nThis warm series of stories offers a glimpse of what it's like to parent a child who has a touch of magic in his soul. (\nGood Housekeeping)\n\nAn uncommonly riotous and moving book [that] will make readers laugh - yes, out loud - before sweeping them, finally, into a soul-spilling high tide . . . Technology's great promise may in fact be to summon, capture and display our most human qualities, both the darkness and the light, to pave avenues of deepened connections with others. (\nNew York Times)\n\nBy turns hilarious and compassionate,\nTo Siri with Love is one of the most moving books about modern parenthood ever written. (Laura Zigman, author of Animal Husbandry)\n\nNewman shares her sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always insightful and upbeat recollections . . . A positive yet honest look into one family's journey with autism. (\nLibrary Journal)\n\nJudith Newman redefines maternal love . . . The book is part Operating Instructions, part love letter to both her son and technology, and a totally engrossing read. Cancel your plans when you pick up this book because you'll want to read it cover to cover. (Annabelle Gurwitch)\n\nI was riveted by\nTo Siri with Love. Judith Newman doesn't just describe and analyze her son's brain, she paints ","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardback","offer_id":32686098022485,"sku":"9781784298296N","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9781784298296.jpg?v=1598878297","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/siri-with-love","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}