A review by booksbytheboats
When You Lose It by Roxy Longworth, Gay Longworth

challenging dark hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

An important memoir written from the perspectives of mother and daughter as they battle years of Roxy’s mental health illnesses off of the back of sending inappropriate photos encouraged by inappropriate boys when she was just 13. 

This book highlights in the rawest of ways how mental health illness can present is different ways, affect people differently and how it can impact on the people around you as well. What I found particularly interesting from reading this mother/daughter memoir was just quite how hard it can be to remember how much you love someone when things are feeling a bit better. 

It’s definitely an eye-opening read and I liked that we got both sides of the same story. I’d recommend this book.