Out of the Dark - Linda Caine

I'm not a fan of autobiographies, so was rather reluctant to read this, as i really was not keen on another feel-sorry-for-yourself or difficult troubled childhood type of book. However i gave it a go, and now i'm certainly glad i did. What makes this book so different is the fact that her therapist has written his side of the story too. Linda has been having blackouts lately and can't explain, she eventually goes to a place for recovery and meets Robin her therapist. The story then begins to get really good, through thererapy Linda begins remembering parts of her youth growing up in Africa. Her mother, father, siblings and how life was then, to ...  Read the complete review

---Why I got the book--- This book had been on my Amazon wishlist for a long time, so when I joined BookMooch it was one of the first books I mooched. Although I'm generally drawn towards autobiographies, especially when they involve mental health issues, I was particularly drawn to this one as I had been told that it involved themes of self-harm. Having personal experiences of self-injury, and spending a great deal of my spare time as trustee doing charity work for two self-injury charities, I make it my aim to read pretty much every book which involves the issue. To start with my collection of books consists of factual books about ...  Read the complete review

OUT OF THE DARK This autobiography was so popular when it was first published in paper back format in 2004 that it stayed on the list of best sellers for most of that year. It has sold almost a quarter of a million books in the UK alone! Linda Caine was born in Zimbabwe, Africa and lived there for most of her childhood, before moving onto Los Angeles and then England. She was happily married with a wonderful husband and two lovely children, living in a big house with no financial worries, and yet Linda was increasingly becoming more depressed by the day. She had what many people would describe as the perfect life and yet there was something that she ...  Read the complete review