Emma Forrest an English journalist was twenty-two & living in America when she realised that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. Lonely in a dangerous cycle of self-harm & damaging relationships she found herself in the chair of a slim balding & effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist
- a man whose wisdom & humanity would wrench her from the vibrant & dangerous tide of herself & who would help her to recover when she tried to end her life. Emma's loving & supportive family circled around her in panic. She was on the brink of drowning. But she was also still working still exploring still writing & she had also fallen deeply in love. One day when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist she found no one there. He had died shockingly at the age of fifty-three leaving behind a young family. Processing the premature death of a man who'd become her anchor after she'd turned up on his doorstep she was adrift. & when her significant & all-consuming relationship also fell apart she was forced to cling to the page for survival. A modern-day fairy tale of New York Your Voice in My Head is a dazzling & devastating memoir clear-eyed & shot through with wit. In a voice unlike any other Emma Forrest explores breakdown & mania but also the beauty of love
- & the heartbreak of loss.