Love Lay Down Beside Me and We Wept

I was a little worried about reading this book as I navigate my own depression. It took me a little bit to get into, then I knew I would finish it. It's so raw, honest, and real. So real. Reading someone say (write) the same things I struggle with, is hard but good. I have compassion for others, why......more

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC! Please note this is a 4.5. The crippling weight of unending perfectionism and the real cost of burning out with dismal mental health is so clear in this book. Beautifully written, and an absolute swan song of trauma, I appreciate everything that the......more

I've read the uncorrected page proofs of this memoir. Love Lay Down is an exceptional story of survival. Helen Taylor’s memoir focuses on her nearly fatal mental illness, and it is both harrowing yet laced with humour as she documents the grinding perfectionism that besets her as she works as a junio......more

Thanks to NetGalley and Unbound for the advanced copy of this title in return for an honest review. These kind of books, I don't review them as a book as such, in terms of format or characters etc. instead I review it in terms of how it made me feel. I liked that we didn't go straight into the depress......more

Many thanks to the publisher, Unbound, Helen Murray Taylor, and Net Galley for the ARC of this book, which is coming out in February 2025. It's the author's memoir of how her mental health deteriorated to the point where she was sectioned with psychotic depression, and her recovery. I would give a l......more