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| Title: Sectioned Author: John O'Donoghue ‘About a year and a half before my own admission, after my father’s death, my mother’s grief led to neglect. Neglect of me, neglect of herself. She took to wandering the roads, wailing for my father, and I stayed off school to ‘look after her’, although I had as little idea of how to look after her as she had of looking after me.’
The author was first admitted to Claybury asylum aged sixteen in 1975, just after his mother had been institutionalised. She died two years later. He spent a decade in asylums, halfway houses, therapeutic communities, dosshouses, squats, and on the streets. Sectioned is his raw, powerful and moving story of survival against the odds. It is also the story of a man’s coming of age in a Britain that was changing forever. Sold at auction to Eleanor Birne at John Murray in June 2007.
UK Publisher: John Murray Rights: All other rights available Schedule: UK Publication 2009
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