'A mother-daughter guide to navigating a teenage mental-health crisis' THE TIMES
'It made me cry, laugh and hug my daughter extra tightly' BRYONY GORDON
How can we communicate better across the generational divide?
When Rowan was sixteen, she experienced a mental-health breakdown. She and her mother, Christie, were barely speaking but they finally began to talk. Their conversations not only revealed the chasm between their generations, but also enabled Christie to really get to know her daughter - and in doing so, understand how she could help Rowan recover.
In an age of polarisation, this is a book about how a mother and daughter find humour in the things that divide them and with it a way to connect. Its bare honesty...
Christie Watson is Professor of Creative Writing at UEA and has written eight books, including Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, which won the Costa First Novel Award. Her debut memoir The Language of Kindness was based on her twenty years working as a nurse, and became a Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Christie is contributor to The Times, The Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph and TedX. Her work has been translated into 23 languages and adapted for theatre.
Read moreRowan Egberongbe wrote this book between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. She is now twenty-one and studying Classics at university.
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