Colin reviews John O’Donoghue's memoir 'Sectioned'
16 August 2011
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I finally got around to reading John O’Donoghue’s autobiography ‘Sectioned: A life interrupted’. It won the MIND book of the year in 2010 so has been on my shelf for a while now. The preface hurls you into the author's world as a teenager with a tale of exorcism, after the death of his father, and his mother's subsequent breakdown. From that point, the use of narrative and the clarity of the storytelling brings alive the people and experiences John lived...