A most disturbing read. Once past a certain point in the story, you can see what is happening but Sally is so deep down in the mire, she hasn't a hope. This book stayed with me for a while - I have no personal experience, but what Douglas Kennedy describes of Sally's experiences in hospital sound convincing.

RELEASE NOTES:

Will release at meet up.

Picked up at the meetup today. Looks like it might be interesting.

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This book was not at all what I'd been expecting. From the cover blurb and the first few chapters, I'd sort of expected a political thriller full of dark and secret conspiracies. Instead, the conspiracies turned out to be of a domestic nature, yet perhaps the darker because of that. About a third of the way through the book, once what was happening began to emerge, the story became completely gripping, and I couldn't put it down.

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Given to Awhina at today's meetup.

This book was amazing. Written by a bloke, yet it portrayed the horrors of post-natal depression and early motherhood so well that I found myself reliving my own experiences. The book moved me to tears more than once and I still can't get some of it out of my head. Things that I had forgotten have resurfaced and now must get unpacked and dealt with. Many times throughout the book I felt like the author was writing my story. I finished reading it a couple of months ago and it has taken a while before I could face journalling it.

RELEASE NOTES:

Left on a chair outside the psych labs on level 1.