Tim Lott had a bad nervous breakdown after his girlfriend left him and he had resigned from his job as editor of CITY LIMITS. He returned to his working class roots to be nursed back to health by his mother. Shortly after he began to get better his mother committed suicide...
Time Lott uncovers a family history of depression which is also, in a fascinating way, a history of the changing attitudes to depression and mental illness in Britain
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'A remarkable memoir ... to read it is to be spellbound as by a gripping novel' Ruth Rendell
With a new Introduction by Blake Morrison
'Brilliant. I don't remember reading any text which is so personal, so particular and near the bone and yet which is so utterly without self-regard' Hilary Mantel
Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange as China'. In this extraordinarily moving exploration of his parents' lives, his mother's inexplicable suicide in her late fifties and his own bouts of depression, Tim Lott conjures up the pebble-dashed home of his childhood and the rapidly changing landscape of postwar suburban England. It is a story of grief, loss and dislocation, yet also of the power of memory and the bonds of family love.
'Outstanding ... tracing his parents' marriage, Lott conveys, with a brilliant, almost Orwellian command of social and historical nuance, what England looked and felt like, decade by decade, from 1930 to 1989 ... it is a story told with courage, candour and astonishing command of detail' Blake Morrison, The Times Literary Supplement
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