Katie Johnson, Marketing, about The Devil Within 
Stephanie Merritt has a career as a novelist and journalist, a beautiful son and a supportive family. Why then did she want to kill herself at the age of 29? Why could no one, neither the system of GPs and health professionals, nor her closest family and friends help her?
Reading like a hybrid of Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation and Rachel Cusk's more sober A Life's Work, Stephanie's unflinchingly honest memoir explores areas of experience commonly associated with depression such as love, solitude and self-medication through the prism of her own experience.
Beautifully written and intensely honest this is an extraordinarily moving, life-affirming book about a debilitating illness that affects one in six people in the UK alone.
Having read many articles by Stephanie Merritt in the Guardian and Observer, it was incredibly moving to learn about how much she went through with her illness. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has suffered from bipolar disorder, who knows anyone with depression or who wants to gain an insight into how even someone who seems to have everything can still be hugely affected by this common, yet often misunderstood, ailment. |
