Vikie Shanks' daughter writes for Gransnet

Pippa, the daughter of Unravelled author Vikie Shanks, has written a blog for Gransnet.

Understanding autism ‘We hear from 13-year-old Pippa Tompsett, diagnosed as autistic when she was three - and perfectly happy about that ever since! While it’s hard, sometimes, for others to understand exactly what being autistic means, Pippa is determined to climb the mountain that is social understanding.’

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Vikie Shanks

Vikie Shanks

Vikie Shanks was born in 1958 in Aden ( now South Yemen ), where her father was stationed in the RAF,  the youngest of three children, and  lived from the age of five in Waterbeach near Cambridge. At the age of seventeen she left home and moved to London to start work as a trainee...More about Vikie Shanks