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A dual memoir from British journalist Patrick Cockburn and his son Henry, about Henry's descent into schizophrenia. It offers a dual perspective on mental illness, from both the sufferer and someone close to him. 'Intensely moving... There is poetry in this prose: the bipolarity of misery and exaltation that Blake understood' Christopher Hitchens
Synopsis
An achingly honest, harrowing, and resonant dual memoir by a British journalist and his son, about his son's sudden descent into schizophrenia