I haven't found out yet if the author herself is a sufferer, though she does dedicate the book to her paternal grandfather and her maternal grandmother, both listed as disabled in war service. Grandfather was in Battle of Somme in 1916, sustained serious leg wounds. Grandmother was a munitions worker during war, partially blinded in explosion that killed friends around her.

The author definitely seems to have a deep understanding, her various characters express a variety of ways of coping, and not coping.

Sarah