Waterboy: Making sense of my son's suicide by Glynis Horning

Waterboy: Making sense of my son's suicide by Glynis Horning 

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Condition: Good - light cover wear

Price: R80

A compelling and agonising story.

Durban-based journalist Glynis Horning and her husband Chris woke up one Sunday morning almost two years ago to the devastating discovery of their 25-year-old son Spencer dead in his bed. Hornings story chronicles a parents worst nightmare. Establishing that his death was suicide, Horning embarks on a journey of anguished self-recrimination.

Should she not have seen the signs? Could she somehow have prevented it? As she struggles with Spencers decision to end his life, she has to learn to understand what the depths of depression entail. We feel Hornings pain, and learn to understand and feel Spencers pain, at a visceral level.

Surrounded by loving family and friends, Horning pieces together the puzzle of Spencers death, writing with a brutal and heart-searing intensity of grief and loss, but also of the joys of celebrating her sons life. This book will touch anyone who has experienced a mental health journey directly or indirectly, or a searing loss. Her wisdom and insight are extraordinary. (Goodread)