Recommended by Dunsborough Book Chat Club
This is a moving and insightful story of a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Maddy Banks is navigating life, the writer shows the complex effects bipolar disorder has had on her relationships, her sense of self, and her dreams for the future. It is an empathetic and relatable depiction of a complex mental illness and provides the reader insight and awareness of how the patient is thinking and feeling. It is fast paced and both funny and sad.
Lisa Genova, a Harvard neurologist by profession, has written many books about often misunderstood neurological conditions. This story is enlightening and hopefully it will help to destigmatise this very difficult mental health condition. This is another one of her well researched, well written and excellent stories.
4.5/5 Stars