{"product_id":"mind-on-fire-9780241982853","title":"Mind on Fire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''[A] \u003cb\u003epainfully intense\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ecourageous\u003c\/b\u003e and\u003cb\u003e gripping\u003c\/b\u003e account of [Fanning''s] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book.'' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eExtraordinary\u003c\/b\u003e. An account of mental illness, grief, delusions, homelessness, a fractured family relationship ... and all while trying to recover and create. \u003cb\u003eSuperb writing on a frequently difficult subject\u003c\/b\u003e.'' Sinéad Gleeson \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArnold Thomas Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his mother. Some ten years later, an up-and-coming playwright, he was overcome by mania and delusions. Thus began a terrible period in which he was often suicidal, increasingly disconnected from family and friends, sometimes in trouble with the law, and homeless in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on his own memories, the recollections of people who knew him when he was at his w\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMind on Fire \u003c\/i\u003eis a truly powerful, arresting, haunting account. Arnold Thomas Fanning has reckoned with the darkest matter of his heart and mind, and I challenge anyone not to be moved by that. -- Sara Baume\u003cbr\u003e[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of [Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book. * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eIn this strange and singular book, Arnold Thomas Fanning mercilessly excavates the infernal underworld of his own years of madness. As reminiscent as it occasionally is of John Healy's \u003ci\u003eThe Grass Arena\u003c\/i\u003e, and even of Orwell's \u003ci\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London\u003c\/i\u003e, the book is ultimately not quite like anything else I've read, and brought me as close to the lived reality of mental illness as I have ever been. It's a significant achievement: a painful, inexorable work of autobiography, whose existence is its own form of redemption. -- Mark O'Connell\u003cbr\u003eThis is an extraordinary memoir about how it feels to be depressed, delusional, desperate * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eExtraordinary. An account of mental illness, grief, delusions, homelessness, a fractured family relationship ... and all while trying to recover and create. Superb writing on a frequently difficult subject. * Sinéad Gleeson *\u003cbr\u003eArnold Thomas Fanning offers the most vivid and unflinching window into the mind of someone who is in the throes of madness ... It was like nothing I'd read before -- Rick Edwards\u003cbr\u003eIncredibly important -- Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self\u003cbr\u003eA spellbinding memoir that should prove both moving and hopefully cathartic for the reader * RTÉ Culture *\u003cbr\u003eWonderful -- Joseph O'Connor * Irish Times Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eTold in tight and immediate first-person, and imbued with a startling momentum that ratchets unnervingly, Fanning's publishing debut ... is a significant achievement and should be a talking point in publishing this year * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003eFanning's debut book lays it on the line in a deeply personal and compelling chronicle of his descent into depression and his way back out. * RTE Guide *\u003cbr\u003eUnsparingly direct, searing and honest ... It is gripping to read and must have been exhausting to live -- Prof Brendan Kelly * Medical Independent *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most gripping and revealing memoirs I've read in a long time. A controlled and artful exploration of absolute loss of control, an unsettling and at times very moving reconstruction of a period of serious mental illness, Mind on Fire is a beautiful book about a terrifying thing. -- Mark O'Connell * Irish Times Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eGripping -- Sinéad Gleeson * Irish Times Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eShocking -- Liz Nugent * Irish Times Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eA ratcheting pace, a tight first-person immediacy, and utterly staggering to be a passenger over its entire warped course ... An indelible, ground-shaking account -- Hilary A White * Irish Independent, Memoir of the Year, Best Reads of 2018 *\u003cbr\u003ePoignant, beautifully detailed memoir -- Sarah Gilmartin * Irish Times, Best Debuts of 2018 *\u003cbr\u003eBrave and illuminating * Sunday Business Post *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733428580695,"sku":"9780241982853","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241982853.jpg?v=1720000039","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mind-on-fire-9780241982853","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}