This review must begin with a declaration of conflict of interest! There are only three other currently published texts purely on neurofibromatosis and I am a coeditor of one of them. However, as I was initially trained as an adult physician before going into clinical genetics, I have to start by saying that Kathryn North, as a paediatric neurologist, provides a different and important perspective to clinical studies of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).

The book is a volume in the International Review of Child Neurology series. It is based on the experience gained in establishing a neurofibromatosis …