'An extraordinary book: deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely
powerful' Robert Macfarlane Heavy Light is the story of a
breakdown: a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a
psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing.
After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to
hospital under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act. From hypomania
in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in
Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch
with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed - or not -
by treatment. A story of the wonder and intensity of the manic
experience, as well as its peril and strangeness, it is shot
through with the love, kindness, humour and care of those who deal
with someone who becomes dangerously ill. Partly a tribute to those
who looked after Horatio, from family and friends to strangers and
professionals, and partly an investigation into how we understand
and treat acute crises of mental health, Heavy Light's beauty,
power and compassion illuminate a fundamental part of human
experience. It asks urgent questions about mental health that
affect each and every one of us. 'One of the most brilliant travel
writers of our day takes us us now to that most challenging
country, severe mental illness; and does so with such wit, warmth,
and humanity, that, better acquainted with its terrors, we may
better face our own' Reverend Richard Coles 'A record of the
bravest, most perilous, most intrepid journey that any human being
can ever make. It is stricken, moving, urgent, crucial . . . A
luminous, beautiful achievement' Niall Griffiths
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