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Daggy
Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 32 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:19 am Post subject: A tale of ordinary madness: the pressure of life with dad |
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A tale of ordinary madness: the pressure of life with dad
As a child, Martin Townsend lived with the chaotic highs and lows of his father's manic depression. On the eve of the second reading of a controversial mental health bill, he recalls his family's struggle to cope with the illness within the man they loved
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,,2057459,00.html
The Father I had - Martin Townsend ISBN : 9780593057568
Seeing this review this morning has prompted me into ordering this book. |
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Admin Tilda
Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 26
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:08 am Post subject: |
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| Martin Townsend is the editor of the Sunday Express and I read a couple of instalments of his book there. It sounds really interesting. |
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Daggy
Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 32 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Admin Tilda wrote: | | Martin Townsend is the editor of the Sunday Express and I read a couple of instalments of his book there. It sounds really interesting. |
I hope so, it should be coming through the post in the next few days after I read the reviews on it. |
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