The Bullet

In August 2014, Tom Lee and his parents drove out to visit Severalls Hospital, a former in-patient psychiatric hospital. Closed since the 1990s, as part of a nationwide shuttering of psychiatric institutions, the buildings now stand derelict and overgrown. But in the recent past, the name 'Severalls' resounded with dread and fear, entering local lexicon as a place where the strange, deranged and dangerous were 'kept away'. Among those strange, deranged and dangerous people were Tom's own parents.The Bullet is a memoir of their time in Severalls, and the breakdowns and difficulties that led them there - often against their will. It is also Tom's own story of his struggle with his fragmenting mental health - a hereditary bullet he believed he'd dodged - and the extraordinary physical crises that precipitated them. Deeply moving, clear-sighted and enormously poignant, The Bullet is a window onto the treatment of mental health disorders in the UK, and a searing analysis of living with a fracturing mind.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Lee
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781783785049
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-504-9
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; SELF-HELP / Mood Disorders / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, Memoirs, Abnormal psychology, Coping with illness & specific conditions, HEALTH & FITNESS / Mental Health, Coping with / advice about mental health issues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs