Corgi, 2004, softcover, illustrated, 446 pages, condition: as new.
As a contented wife and mother, Linda Caine should have everything to live for. Yet a blackness has started to leak into her thoughts. Linda believes there is something malign inside her, and she often contemplates suicide. The raw and powerful journey Linda takes with her psychotherapist Robin Royston to discover what lies at the heart of her depression will leave you shocked. The secrets in her African childhood and adolescence are buried so deep that revealing them may destroy her completely.
Life for Linda Caine should hold no fears. As a contented wife and mother, she should have everything to live for. Yet a blackness has started to leak into her thoughts. Images flash through her head leaving her stunned and breathless. In the back of her mind a voice tells her over and over again that when it finally gets to be too much, she can always simply die. She begins to think: How shall I die if that times comes? It must look like an accident. She will deliberately drive off the road on her way home from her weekly shopping trip. After all, who commits suicide with a load of groceries in her car?
The raw and powerful journey Linda takes with her psychotherapist Robin Royston to discover what lies at the heart of her depression will leave you shocked. The secrets in her African childhood and adolescence are buried so deep that to reveal them may destroy her completely. Together, Linda and Robin race to unravel the clues, before it is too late.
Out of the Dark describes Linda Caines remarkable and uplifting journey from the agonies of mental breakdown to the painful piecing together of the past that is vital for her survival. Both her courage and Robins persistence show the power of the human spirit at its most indomitable and inspiring.
