A learning curve from kitchen table to publishing deal

ANY event which necessitated Avril Webster taking her nine-year-old son Stephen away from home posed major difficulties.

Stephen’s intellectual development is way short of his years and when out of his own environment he became uneasy and difficult to manage.

Avril said: “If we went out to the supermarket with our two other children Michael, aged six, and Rachel, four, Stephen could become very unsettled as he did not know what was going on.”