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Madness: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Richards, Kate

Book ID: 109227997
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781742535623

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✦ Synopsis

Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for theQueensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize.****

Madness is a real world for the many thousands of people who are right now living within it. It never apologises. Sometimes it is a shadow, ever present, without regard for the sun. Sometimes it is a well of dark water with no bottom, or a levitation device to the stars.

Madness, a memoir is an insight into what it's like to live with psychosis over a period of ten years, in which bouts of acute illness are interspersed with periods of sanity. The world is beautiful and terrifying and sometimes magical. The sanctity of life is at times precious and at times precarious and always fragile. It's a story of learning to manage illness with courage and creativity, of achieving balance and living well. It is for everyone now living within the world of madness, for everyone...

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