When life is challenging and peace feels harder to come by, I remember that the path towards it doesn’t lie outside my mind, but within it.

During these seven years, her world turned upside down in many ways and by the end of this time, everyone's world had turned upside down as COVID raced around the world. My grip on reality grew less and less firm and eventually, when I was almost 27, I’d unravelled enough for a psychiatrist to get involved. This Ragged Grace is smart and tender, and honest in that raw way that gets you at the back of your throat. OB: I was initially planning a book closely mapped onto my thesis, but I was getting stuck in these intellectual spirals. Bright also tells the story of her father’s descent into Alzheimer’s, her care for him clashing with the simultaneous flush of a new love.At some point, she realised she needed help and availed of the medical and mental health services available at her university and started on a journey towards herself via recovery. He covers the ten months following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, while also effectively tracing the roots of the war back centuries. KG: From the instantaneous drive of the addict to the long work of recovery and the chronic illness of Alzheimer’s, the book also oscillates between different ideas of time. Save Elodie Harper in conversation with Jennifer Saint at Waterstones Piccadilly to your collection. Yet Ukraine lacked a “recent tradition of national statehood” and no single national narrative took hold.

Octavia takes you with her on a moving and insightful journey through her sobriety in tandem with her father's Alzheimer’s and declining health.I walked so hard and so fast in the winter of 2013 that I wore right through a pair of red Doc Martens.