John Harris' Maybe I'm Amazed is a moving, entertaining and at times heart-breaking account of his experiences bringing up James, his son who has both autism and a gift for music. This gives the by now fairly standard structuring around key songs a new force as he traces his son's interest in all kinds of music from The Beatles (always) to the Clash and Funkadelic (but not Captain Beefheart, who doesn't come out the book well). At the same time, it's a powerful depiction of the crisis in support for young people with disabilities, captured in the observation that the number of children with Special Education Needs in mainstream schools fell by 25% between 2012 and 2019, while those in special schools increased by almost one-third. So much for inclusion. There are lighter touches too, such as Harris' longstanding connection with Billy Bragg resulting in the latter making a song out of James' "No more school, no more school, no more school'. I had two relatively minor issues with the book: the title, which really doesn't do it justice, and Harris' use of the present tense pretty much throughout, which gives the book immediacy but confuses the chronology at times. That aside, this is a lovely book.