"There is an eruption of electricity in the brain, and what happens is a short circuit," says Lara’s father, while her teacher is even more direct: "Lara is having an epileptic seizure, she’s not going to die."
Just as little Lara in the story feels a weighty stone roll off her chest on opening her eyes and looking around at her understanding classmates, we hope that little book will sweep away some of the rubble from the needless pile of false beliefs and ideas about epilepsy-starting, and rightly so, with children.