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‘Moving and vital’ i NEWS ‘A beautiful book’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Cannon’s varied selection vividly portrays how our minds can become locked-in worlds of anguish, terror and distress […] We learn how hard, and how long, the road to recovery can be’ TLS ‘Cannon’s book is a labour of love and deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible’ DAILY MIRROR ‘Powerful and important. I recommend it to everyone’ ALICE HOPKINS, BBC RADIO OXFORD ‘I’ve been recommending it to everyone’ RAY D’ARCY ‘Amazing and powerful… I hope this book will inspire more people with lived experience of mental distress to write their own stories; and inspire professionals to listen better’ DR GWEN ADSHEAD READER REVIEWS ARE IN ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Enlightening and heartbreaking’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Powerful and insightful’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A bold idea, sensitively executed… [this is] an important book that I hope can play a part in shifting assumptions and, hopefully, encouraging empathy’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Heartbreaking, horrific and eye-opening… Please read this book, it may help you to understand a little about one other person you know’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I am in awe of the open and honest accounts given by the people in this book… Thank you’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Heart-breaking and hopeful, written with such kindness and beauty. A must read for anyone wanting to better understand mental illness’

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Joanna Cannon's first two novels, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things about Elsie, were both Sunday Times bestsellers and Richard and Judy picks. She worked as a hospital doctor before specialising in psychiatry, and lives in the Peak District with her family and her dog.

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