Out of Me

Fiona Shaw has a loving husband, a dream cottage in Yorkshire and has just given birth to her second child. Ten days later she is hospitalised in a psychiatric unit for sever postnatal depression.

In this powerful memoir she describes how the ‘Baby Blues’ suddenly developed into something much more serious, and recalls the months of despair which nearly destroyed her. Only when she emerged from the nightmare and produced this startling testimony could she regain control of her life and triumph over the past.

With an introduction by Adam Phillips: ‘Stark and subtle… She never gives up on her heartfelt wish to be accurate about the kind of emotional turbulence that renders us unintelligible Out of Me is a quest, and a request… for new ways we can look after each other. For new ways of writing’.