- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Viking (16 Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670864609
- ISBN-13: 978-0670864607
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 61,563 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a history of a family and depression. The author had a nervous breakdown after his girlfriend left and he had resigned from his job as editor of "City Limits". He returned to his working class roots to be nursed back to health by his mother. Shortly after he began to get better (he was given Lithium and subsequently Prozac which enabled him to function again) his mother committed suicide. The author then began to uncover a family history of depression which is also, in a way, a history of the changing attitudes to depression and mental illness in Britain.
About the Author
Tim Lott has founded several successful businesses and worked as a broadcaster, a magazine editor and television producer. He read Politics and History at the London School of Economics and lives in Notting Hill, London. This is his first book.
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The time that I dream of, that I imagine, that I reconstruct more than any other, is a Monday early in March 1988. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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The time that I dream of, that I imagine, that I reconstruct more than any other, is a Monday early in March 1988. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had expected more of a straight autobiography of Tim Lott rather than this account of how he came to deal with his own issues in life by looking at the lives of his parents.
Yet this examination has, perhaps unintentionally, given us a richly detailed and often amusing look at the changing condition of the post-war working class in West London. By telling us the story of his parent's own childhoods, lives, meeting and marriage, Lott has allowed a glimpse in to the collected experience that formed his own childhood and young adulthood within a cultural framework that has now vanished from the English social landscape.
I enjoyed this book thoroughly. Lott has written in arrestingly descriptive style that maintains a good pace and holds the reader. Although I concluded that his life has not exactly been one of ease, it does appear that some of his 'problems' have been of his own making. Nevertheless, it did not diminish my sympathy for him or those in his life.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved this book. Tim Lott has written an overwhelmingly honest and moving book. As a mental health professional, I feel he deserves a lot of credit for this story of himself and those he comes from. I felt as though I knew them all.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book is fantastic.
Granted, Tim Lott's life has thrown up a fair amount of material for such a book, but this surpasses itself with the sheer amount of evocative storytelling.
I find memoirs can be a bit too much sometimes. Sometimes I don't feel as though I really care enough to be truly interested. But from the very beginning, Lott draws you in.
It's true that you would have to be very hard hearted not be moved by his mother's suicide note, but the background Lott builds around his family is wonderful.
I would say I'm slightly biased in that I live in the West London area, and know many of the places Lott talks about, but this is also a true London book. I loved the sections covering life as it was for the Lott family earlier in the century, and it's testament to Lott's writing that I even began to care about this distant relatives.
I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
I Rather Watch The Grass Grow!
I picked this book feeling it will offer me a touching suicidal story, but it was so slow and missing real objectives of any plot if there was one. Read more
Published 6 days ago by QALAM
Painfully honest
This was a painfully honest book of a man's life and the suicide of his mother.
It is very well written and gives a wide picture of the history of a typical British family. Read more
It is very well written and gives a wide picture of the history of a typical British family. Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2008 by Tamara
Well written but ultimately disappointing
This is an interesting and well written book by a clever writer. There are not, after all, many autobiographies of people who grew up in Southall. Read more
Published on 20 April 2001
clarity brought about through connection
Tim Lott's acount of surviving the end of a love affair via obsession, disconnection and finally clarity of thought is searing and complete. Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2000
Moving and meaningful
An excellent, wrenching book from a talented writer. It takes time and commitment to read, as it's so densely packed with detail, event, and emotion. But the rewards are many. Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2000
the truth, honest and a littery masterpiece
there are no words to describe how excellent this book is. lott has been open and frank about his condition and his mothers death. Read more
Published on 12 April 2000 by "loud1980"
Brave, insightful, heartbreaking
The book could be described as a 'Whodunitt'. After the unexpected suicide of his mother, Tim Lott is compelled to discover who or what caused her death. Read more
Published on 1 Jun 1999
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