TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 80 LP - 80 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X689257 VL - 67 IS - 655 AU - Debra Tucker Y1 - 2017/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/655/80.2.abstract N2 - Chris Packham Ebury Press, 2016, HB, 288pp, £10.00, 978-1785033483Publicity around this book includes a piece in the Guardian1 informing us that Chris Packham (TV presenter, photographer, and conservationist) was diagnosed in his early 20s with Asperger’s syndrome. As a memoir this is not essential information for the book because it stands alone as a magnificent boy’s own story demanding the reader consider what may have drove him to seek suicide as an escape from his difficult life. As a practitioner … ER -