For readers who enjoyed Alexandra Heminsley's Running like a Girl & Bryony Gordon's Mad Girl Running For My Life is a funny heartfelt & inspirational story of one woman's marathon journey through mental illness Suffering from depression but desperate for 'normality' Rachel Cullen found herself in failing relationships the wrong career & a reliance on alcohol & chocolate to get her through each day Stuck in an endless cycle of mental misery she put on a pair of old trainers She'd never been able to think of herself as a 'runner' before & the first time she forced herself out the door she knew it would hurt Everywhere She just didn't realise how much it would heal her too Interspersed with Rachel's real diary entries from teenage non-runner to London Marathon finisher (just months after giving birth) she questions if she really can outrun her demons