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On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry waded into the lethally cold Newhaven estuary and almost drowned. The trees, he said, had told him to do it. In Afghanistan, Patrick learned that Henry had been admitted to a hospital mental ward. Ten days later he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. With remarkable candour, Patrick writes of the seven years Henry has since spent almost entirely in mental hospitals. Schizophrenics are at high risk for suicide, and his parents live in constant fear for Henry's life. The book also includes Henry's own account of his experiences. In these raw and eerily beautiful chapters he tells of his visions and voices, the sense that he has discovered something magical and profound. Together, Patrick and Henry's stories create one of the most nuanced and revealing portraits of mental illness ever written, and a stirring memoir of family, parenthood, and courage.
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'Intensely moving . . . There is poetry in this prose: the bipolarity of misery and exaltation that Blake understood' Christopher Hitchens
'a work of literary power' Observer Supplement
'a frightening, gut-wrenching and fantastical story of a young man's voyage into madness...Henry's own words leap out' Independent
'The Cockburns have done a tremendous service in making their story available in all its horror, tenderness and beauty' Guardian
'Anyone lucky enough to read this book will wish that Henry continues to get better, and to write' The Spectator
'Moving and harrowing' The Times
'brave, candid and moving' Sunday Times
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'a work of literary power' Observer Supplement
'a frightening, gut-wrenching and fantastical story of a young man's voyage into madness...Henry's own words leap out' Independent
'The Cockburns have done a tremendous service in making their story available in all its horror, tenderness and beauty' Guardian
'Anyone lucky enough to read this book will wish that Henry continues to get better, and to write' The Spectator
'Moving and harrowing' The Times
'brave, candid and moving' Sunday Times
On a February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the lethally cold water of Newhaven estuary. Voices, he said, had told him to do it.
Thus begins Patrick and Henry's extraordinary account of Henry's rapid descent into mental illness.
With striking candour Patrick writes of the seven years since, years Henry has spent almost entirely in mental hospitals while Patrick and Jan have lived in constant fear for his life. Henry's own raw and beautiful chapters describe his psychosis from the inside as he relates what it is like to hear trees speaking to him, and describes his long battle to survive.
Together, Patrick's and Henry stories create one of the most compelling, nuanced and courageous portraits ever written about surviving mental illness.
'remarkable...It would be impossible not to like Henry, who is candid, touching and often funny...Anyone lucky enough to read this book will wish that he continues to get better, and to write' The Spectator
'Moving and harrowing' The Times
'a dispatch from the ultimate domestic war zone, a journal of suffering, a guide for others in similar distress, and a work of literary power' Observer
Thus begins Patrick and Henry's extraordinary account of Henry's rapid descent into mental illness.
With striking candour Patrick writes of the seven years since, years Henry has spent almost entirely in mental hospitals while Patrick and Jan have lived in constant fear for his life. Henry's own raw and beautiful chapters describe his psychosis from the inside as he relates what it is like to hear trees speaking to him, and describes his long battle to survive.
Together, Patrick's and Henry stories create one of the most compelling, nuanced and courageous portraits ever written about surviving mental illness.
'remarkable...It would be impossible not to like Henry, who is candid, touching and often funny...Anyone lucky enough to read this book will wish that he continues to get better, and to write' The Spectator
'Moving and harrowing' The Times
'a dispatch from the ultimate domestic war zone, a journal of suffering, a guide for others in similar distress, and a work of literary power' Observer
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- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 1847398596
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- Numero di pagine256
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