The Bullet : A Memoir Hardback
by Tom Lee
Hardback
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In August 2014, Tom Lee and his parents drove out to visit Severalls Hospital, a former in-patient psychiatric hospital.
Closed since the 1990s, as part of a nationwide shuttering of psychiatric institutions, the buildings now stand derelict and overgrown.
But in the recent past, the name 'Severalls' resounded with dread and fear, entering local lexicon as a place where the strange, deranged and dangerous were 'kept away'.
Among those strange, deranged and dangerous people were Tom's own parents. The Bullet is a memoir of their time in Severalls, and the breakdowns and difficulties that led them there - often against their will.
It is also Tom's own story of his struggle with his fragmenting mental health - a hereditary bullet he believed he'd dodged - and the extraordinary physical crises that precipitated them.
Deeply moving, clear-sighted and enormously poignant, The Bullet is a window onto the treatment of mental health disorders in the UK, and a searing analysis of living with a fracturing mind.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:02/05/2024
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- ISBN:9781783785049
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:02/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781783785049