Is a book for anyone struggling. For family and friends it contains a valuable message.
Has that title because it’s about me, and I wear spectacles.
Is based on about 300 drawings I made in 2018, when I was in psychiatric hospital, with severe depression. Also contains a few photos. Was originally published as a limited edition hardback, stitch-bound with a dust jacket. Some first-edition copies may still be available. It was put together in just a month, semi-publicly, shared as work in progress with a select group, many of whom also became buyers.
- Has given some readers a thrill and blown others away.
- Is touching people’s lives.
- Has the potential to save somebody’s life.
Touches on topics people are afraid to speak of. And for that reason should be part of any university curriculum on mental health, according to one mental health practitioner. Is “as important” as Man’s Search for Meaning, according to another.
Was described by Rhik Samadder, author of I Never Said I Loved You, as a tough, shining, fiercely charming thing. But the first 90 copies to be printed featured a misspelled version of Rhik’s quote and were (therefore) sent out with a hand-typed erratum slip, which readers rather liked.
Has also been described as moving, funny and honest by Oliver Burkeman, Sunday Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks; funny, truthful, heartbreaking and deadly serious by Julie Myerson, author of Home and The Lost Child; “warm, insightful, beautiful” by Tim Lott, author of The Scent of Dried Roses.
Oh, and on Instagram for anyone to see, as ‘brave and brilliant’ by the author’s wife.