I need to write a synposis of my book DaySix for my publishers.
How does this sound?
Day Six is story of one of the roughest introductions to motherhood you
can imagine. Jen Wight breaks the taboo around mental ill health to
honestly recount her experience of developing post partum psychosis
and then severe post natal depression. She tells the tales of being
convinced she was Cameron Diaz; that she and Obama were going to
use FaceBook to save the world; and that she was going to cure
cerebral palsy with dental floss.
One
scary night she experiences regressing back through her 'past lives'
to become a sixties housewife, an aboriginal women living when Cook
first sailed through The Heads into Sydney Harbour, and finally the
first chimpanzee to communicate with words.
And it all started on Day
Six of her son's life.
She
uses her experiences to explore her relationship with her sister who
has schizophrenia and to illustrate that while mental illness can be
devastating, there is hope that things can get better.
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