Category: Mental Health
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Matilda Windsor is Coming Home by Anne Goodwin – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In the dying days of the old asylums, three paths intersect. Henry was only a boy when he waved goodbye to his glamorous grown-up sister; approaching sixty, his life is still on hold as he awaits her return. As a high-society hostess renowned for her recitals, Matty’s burden weighs heavily upon her, but…
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Don’t Worry, Everything Is Going To Be Amazing by Billy Moran – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Chris Pringle: simpleton, casualty or local hero? Propped up by friends, benefits and a baffling faith in his plan, he lives in a world where every day is obsessively the same: wedged in his recliner, watching murder mysteries, taking notes. Until the day a serious and peculiar crime stumps the local police –…
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Escaping The Whale by Ruth Rotkowitz – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Escaping the Whale – bookdescription To everyone who knows her, 28-year-old Marcia Gold leads the perfect life. A good job as a high school guidance counselor specializing in helping pregnant teens as well as a handsome, successful boyfriend, she seems to have it all in 1980 Brooklyn, New York. However, beneath the shiny…
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What Doesn’t Kill You: 15 Stories Of Survival by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Contributors include Cathy Rentzenbrink, Rory Bremner, Melanie McGrath (a Mail on Sunday best British writer under thirty-five), Irenosen Okojie (a Betty Trask Prize-winning novelist) David Owen (a Carnegie Medal nominee), Lily Bailey (author of Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought) and Kate Leaver (writer for Glamour UK, Vice…
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Draca by Geoffrey Gudgion – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A war-damaged veteran on a mission to self- destruct… … a controlling father pushing him ever closer to the edge… … and a yachtswoman who gives all she has to hold him back. And between them all, there’s an old boat with dark secrets, and perhaps a mind of its own. MY…
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Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Life hasn’t gone according to Judy’s plan. Her career as a children’s book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive. Teddy, now a teenager, treats her with some combination of mortification and indifference. Her best friend is dying. And her husband, Gary, has become a pot-addled professional “snackologist”…
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Everything Is Going To Be K.O by Kaiya Stone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In Everything is Going to be K.O. Kaiya Stone writes about her own experiences of living with specific learning difficulties: from struggling at school to being diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia while at university, to performing her own one-woman stand up show inspired by her journey. Always funny and unfailingly honest, Kaiya…
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Four Minutes To Save A Life by Anna Stuart – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB There’s always time to help out a stranger…isn’t there? Supermarket delivery driver Charlie enjoys his new job, because he doesn’t have to spend too long with people, who, he’s found, are nothing but trouble. But when he’s assigned the Hope Row street, he realises there are a lot of lonely people out there…
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Saving Lucia by Anna Vaught – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB How would it be if four lunatics went on a tremendous adventure, reshaping their pasts and futures as they went, including killing Mussolini? What if one of those people were a fascinating, forgotten aristocratic assassin and the others a fellow life co-patient, James Joyce’s daughter Lucia, another the first psychoanalysis patient, known to…
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The Existence Of Amy by Lana Grace Riva – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Amy has a normal life. That is, if you were to go by a definition of ‘no immediate obvious indicators of peculiarity’, and you didn’t know her very well. She has good friends, a good job, a nice enough home. This normality, however, is precariously plastered on top of a different life. A…
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