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The Mirror World of Melody Black by Gavin Extence
5.0
This is an amazing and searingly honest portrayal of living with bipolar disorder. It's so good it's hard to remember that it's a novel and not a first hand account. And it did make me cry on the bus - but only the once, about halfway through the book.
I don't know why I find novels that take mental illness as their central theme so affecting - perhaps because it's so brittle and so thin a line between coping and not coping. I know the portals to Melody Black's mirror world exist - I've seen them, I've just never stepped through one. If you've ever wondered what the soaring highs of bipolar mania are like - and the resulting deep depression that follows them - then this puts you right there inside Abby's head.
Brilliant and highly highly recommended - one of my favourite reads this year.
I don't know why I find novels that take mental illness as their central theme so affecting - perhaps because it's so brittle and so thin a line between coping and not coping. I know the portals to Melody Black's mirror world exist - I've seen them, I've just never stepped through one. If you've ever wondered what the soaring highs of bipolar mania are like - and the resulting deep depression that follows them - then this puts you right there inside Abby's head.
Brilliant and highly highly recommended - one of my favourite reads this year.