Product Description
Waterboy: Making Sense of My Son's Suicide
Author: Glynis Horning
Format: Paperback
A compelling and agonising story. Durban-based journalist Glynis Horning and her husband Chris woke one Sunday morning almost two years ago to the devastating discovery of their 25-year-old son Spencer dead in his bed.
Horning’s story chronicles a parent’s worst nightmare. Establishing that his death was suicide, Horning embarks on a journey of anguished self-recrimination.
Should she not have seen the signs? Could she somehow have prevented it?
As she struggles with Spencer’s decision to end his life, she has to learn to understand what the depths of depression entail. We feel Horning’s pain, and learn to understand and feel Spencer’s pain, at a visceral level.
Surrounded by loving family and friends, Horning pieces together the puzzle of Spencer’s death, writing with a brutal and heart-searing intensity of grief and loss, but also of the joys of celebrating her son’s life. This book will touch anyone who has experienced a mental health journey directly or indirectly, or a searing loss.
Her wisdom and insight are extraordinary.
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