Name: Your Voice in My Head
ISBN: 9781408822067

Emma Forrest

'Writing with a sharp immediacy and unremitting honesty...Forrest is a prodigiously talented writer with a genuinely original voice' Sydney Morning Herald

Your Voice in My Head

A dazzling and devastating memoir -- Girl Interrupted for the Juno generation. Talented, prolific and charming, Emma Forrest was settled in Manhattan at twenty-two and on contract to the Guardian when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity, past the warm waters of weird and into those cold, deep patches of the sea where people lose their lives. Lonely, in a dangerous cycle of cutting and bulimia, and drawn inexplicably to damaging and cruel relationships, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist -- a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the vibrant and dangerous tide of herself, and who would help her to recover when she tried to end her life. Emma's loving and supportive family and friends circled around her in panic. Like Ophelia, Emma was on the brink of drowning. But she was also still working, still exploring, still writing. And then she fell in love. One day, when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist, she found no one there. He had died, shockingly, at the age of fifty-three, leaving behind a young family for whom he had fought to survive. Processing the premature doorstep, a failed suicide, she was adrift. And when her significant and all-consuming relationship also fell apart, she was forced to cling to the page for survival. Your Voice in My Head is spiked with wit, humour and unique perception. It not only explores the crashing weight of depression, mania and suffering, but also the beauty of love and the heartbreak of loss. It is also, fundamentally, about our relationship with ourselves.

Kat A

This is a really weird book. The writing style is pretty unique; it wasn't for me. I had no idea what she was talking about half the time nor what this book was really supposed to be about. I did read it in one sitting so I guess it must have had something redeeming about it. Read it if you're curious but I do not recommend.

Erin.

Forrest is a writer who is startlingly good at getting right to the heart of things -- including, it would seem, herself. A brave and unflinching look at one's own self, Your Voice in My Head is an unflinching memoir that shies away from none of life's messes. Funny and warm as much as it is revealing, there's little wonder the story of this dazzling life was optioned just about as soon as it was laid down.

Aditi

Presents the author's struggle with mental illness in the wake of her psychiatrist's unexpected death.

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