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"A moving memoir by Sheridan Morley's wife, Ruth Leon. about his crushing battle
with depression.
Ruth Leon was married to Sheridan Morley - theatre critic, broadcaster and
Britain's pre-eminent arts journalist. He'd suffered from bouts of depression
all his life but suddenly, after a mild stroke, his usual treatments stopped
working. He sat, crying, his chin pressed down into his chest, all day, every
day. Ruth looked after him - sometimes gracefully and sympathetically, often
angrily and tensely. Also an arts journalist, for two years she did her own
freelance work as well as his. She no longer recognised her husband, but she
could be him.
One day, a consultant in Oxford said he thought they'd been treating the wrong
kind of depression; that the stroke had damaged the emotional centre of
Sheridan's brain. He knew of a procedure that might help, but it had never
before been performed in the UK. It was an outlandish, fantastical idea - an
implant would be put in Sheridan's brain that would allow doctors to adjust his
mood with an electronic remote control. They would be tampering with the very
core of what made Sheridan 'Sheridan'. On behalf of her long-absent husband,
Ruth agreed.
Ruth Leon's account of this unique journey to the heart of what it is to be
human is as honest and moving as it is fascinating and challenging."
ISBN: 9781780332154
ISBN-10: 1780332157
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Published: 5th January 2012
Publisher: BOOKSALES INC
Dimensions (cm): 19.400 x 13.000
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