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nonSENse: A story for every family fighting the SEN system
The system is failing. These parents refuse to.
Amy is at breaking point. Her son Mason is drowning in a mainstream school that won’t listen, won’t adapt, and won’t admit it’s failing him.
Julia smiles through it all, but she’s fighting a lonely war for her son Theo. up against shifting rules, shrinking budgets, and a system that hopes she’ll simply give up.
Angela stays quiet, but she sees everything. And she cannot shake the fear that her daughter Sienna isn’t safe in the special school that promised to protect her.
Each week they gather with other parents and carers stitched together by exhaustion, outrage, and a love that refuses to be ignored.
What begins as a support group becomes a lifeline. A rebellion. A circle of people who have nothing left to lose and everything left to fight for.
Through tribunals, safeguarding scares, midnight paperwork, council battles, laughter that borders on hysteria, and moments of solidarity that feel like oxygen, these families learn the the system may be broken, but together, they are not.
Raw, darkly funny, and fiercely hopeful, nonSENse explores the chaos and courage of navigating Special Educational Needs in a world built for someone else’s child. It’s a story of friendship, fury, resilience and the unstoppable power of parents who refuse to give up on their children.
Amy is at breaking point. Her son Mason is drowning in a mainstream school that won’t listen, won’t adapt, and won’t admit it’s failing him.
Julia smiles through it all, but she’s fighting a lonely war for her son Theo. up against shifting rules, shrinking budgets, and a system that hopes she’ll simply give up.
Angela stays quiet, but she sees everything. And she cannot shake the fear that her daughter Sienna isn’t safe in the special school that promised to protect her.
Each week they gather with other parents and carers stitched together by exhaustion, outrage, and a love that refuses to be ignored.
What begins as a support group becomes a lifeline. A rebellion. A circle of people who have nothing left to lose and everything left to fight for.
Through tribunals, safeguarding scares, midnight paperwork, council battles, laughter that borders on hysteria, and moments of solidarity that feel like oxygen, these families learn the the system may be broken, but together, they are not.
Raw, darkly funny, and fiercely hopeful, nonSENse explores the chaos and courage of navigating Special Educational Needs in a world built for someone else’s child. It’s a story of friendship, fury, resilience and the unstoppable power of parents who refuse to give up on their children.
258 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 20, 2026
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January 29, 2026
Beautiful and completely real
This story is a delight. I recognise every single character and have lived several of the stories. There's just enough teaching and guiding for those that need it, intertwined in a beautifully simple telling of what life is as a SEN parent.
Parent carers will read it and feel less alone. "Ordinary" parents and professionals will hopefully read it and recognise that we are exalt like them... Doing the bare essential for our children... Yet having to fight for that essential.
This story is a delight. I recognise every single character and have lived several of the stories. There's just enough teaching and guiding for those that need it, intertwined in a beautifully simple telling of what life is as a SEN parent.
Parent carers will read it and feel less alone. "Ordinary" parents and professionals will hopefully read it and recognise that we are exalt like them... Doing the bare essential for our children... Yet having to fight for that essential.
February 1, 2026
I've just finished this book today after reading it in a week and cannot recommend it enough.
This is a fictional yet realistic story about the struggle of parenting SEN children and the fights you have to endure to get your kids what they need.
It's an easy read, beautifully written and extremely relatable.
This is a fictional yet realistic story about the struggle of parenting SEN children and the fights you have to endure to get your kids what they need.
It's an easy read, beautifully written and extremely relatable.
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