{"product_id":"homeschooled","title":"Homeschooled","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomeschooled\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Stefan Merrill Block recounts the unconventional education his mother subjected him to and his determined fight to return to school. A heartfelt, humorous and insightful memoir of a child's experience of parental insanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003e‘A compelling and fitfully harrowing child’s-eye account of a mother’s unravelling’ \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eStefan was nine when his mother pulled him from school in Plano, Texas, certain that his teachers were ‘stifling his creativity’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eYears before homeschooling became a nationwide movement in the US, he vanished from the system and into his mother’s increasingly eccentric theories and projects – including her quest to bleach her 12-year-old son’s hair to recapture his earliest years, and to make him crawl not walk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBeyond his formal lessons in maths, he was largely left to his own devices academically, leaving vast gaps in his knowledge. When, after five years away from the outside world, he re-entered the school system, he was in for a jarring awakening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAt once a novelistic portrait of mother and son, and an illuminating window into an overlooked corner of the US education system, \u003ci\u003eHomeschooled \u003c\/i\u003eis a moving, funny and ultimately inspiring story of a son’s battle for a life of his own choosing, and the price of a mother’s insatiable love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘A love story and a domestic horror story, so insightfully written that you can’t always separate its loving aspects from its horrifying ones. I didn’t fully realise I’d read it in a single sitting until it was time to turn the lights on’ \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘Block is unflinching in both his honesty about his unhappiness and his profound love for the mother who didn’t want to let him grow up. An important book for our current world, Blocks brave story will help a lot of people feel less alone. An instant classic’ \u003cb\u003eEmma Straub, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Time Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘An urgent, wrenching, fantastically told tale that is also filled with hope, much the same way a heart can both break and hold fast under the weight of a mother’s touch’\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIsaac Fitzgerald, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cem\u003eDirtbag, Massachusetts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘Painful, funny, honest, heartbreaking. Nothing less than a sensational book’ \u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cem\u003eL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eess\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘Block achieves something remarkable: to put the reader inside the head of a child and let us understand what it was like to be that child – and then also, when he switches perspectives, a variously faceted portrait of a mother. Heartbreaking and totally compelling’ \u003cstrong\u003eAlexander Starritt, author of \u003cem\u003eDrayton and Mackenzie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘A coming-of-age memoir for the ages, in turns hilarious and compassionate, furious and faithful’ \u003cb\u003eMary Karr, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Liars’ Club\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6 data-w-id=\"0341c49b-8768-ae98-1570-96e1bf3eb3a0\" data-wf-id='[\"0341c49b-8768-ae98-1570-96e1bf3eb3a0\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-product-description-input\"\u003eHardback: 288pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6 data-w-id=\"0341c49b-8768-ae98-1570-96e1bf3eb3a4\" data-wf-id='[\"0341c49b-8768-ae98-1570-96e1bf3eb3a4\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-product-description-input\"\u003ePublished: Wilton Square (January 2026)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6 data-w-id=\"0341c49b-8768-ae98-1570-96e1bf3eb3a8\" data-wf-id='[\"0341c49b-8768-ae98-1570-96e1bf3eb3a8\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-product-description-input\"\u003eISBN:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e9781806770038\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilton Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58627727622528,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/files\/HomeSchooledUKv2_2_71c4006e-f04c-4dcf-a784-4eac586341d5.jpg?v=1785754362","url":"https:\/\/www.eyebooksgroup.com\/products\/homeschooled","provider":"Eye Books Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}