A searing, immersive account of profound mental illness.
Arnold Thomas Fanning was born in London and raised in Dublin. His stage plays include the acclaimed McKenna's Fort. Mind on Fire is his first book.
Mind on Fire is a truly powerful, arresting, haunting account.
Arnold Thomas Fanning has reckoned with the darkest matter of his
heart and mind, and I challenge anyone not to be moved by that.
*Sara Baume*
[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of
[Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is
a brave and instructive book.
*Irish Times*
In this strange and singular book, Arnold Thomas Fanning
mercilessly excavates the infernal underworld of his own years of
madness. As reminiscent as it occasionally is of John Healy's The
Grass Arena, and even of Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London,
the book is ultimately not quite like anything else I've read, and
brought me as close to the lived reality of mental illness as I
have ever been. It's a significant achievement: a painful,
inexorable work of autobiography, whose existence is its own form
of redemption.
*Mark O'Connell*
This is an extraordinary memoir about how it feels to be depressed,
delusional, desperate
*Observer*
Extraordinary. An account of mental illness, grief, delusions,
homelessness, a fractured family relationship ... and all while
trying to recover and create. Superb writing on a frequently
difficult subject.
*Sinéad Gleeson*
Arnold Thomas Fanning offers the most vivid and unflinching window
into the mind of someone who is in the throes of madness ... It was
like nothing I'd read before
*Rick Edwards*
Incredibly important
*Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self*
A spellbinding memoir that should prove both moving and hopefully
cathartic for the reader
*RTÉ Culture*
Wonderful
*Irish Times Books of the Year*
Told in tight and immediate first-person, and imbued with a
startling momentum that ratchets unnervingly, Fanning's publishing
debut ... is a significant achievement and should be a talking
point in publishing this year
*Irish Independent*
Fanning's debut book lays it on the line in a deeply personal and
compelling chronicle of his descent into depression and his way
back out.
*RTE Guide*
Unsparingly direct, searing and honest ... It is gripping to read
and must have been exhausting to live
*Medical Independent*
One of the most gripping and revealing memoirs I've read in a long
time. A controlled and artful exploration of absolute loss of
control, an unsettling and at times very moving reconstruction of a
period of serious mental illness, Mind on Fire is a beautiful book
about a terrifying thing.
*Irish Times Books of the Year*
Gripping
*Irish Times Books of the Year*
Shocking
*Irish Times Books of the Year*
A ratcheting pace, a tight first-person immediacy, and utterly
staggering to be a passenger over its entire warped course ... An
indelible, ground-shaking account
*Irish Independent, Memoir of the Year, Best Reads of 2018*
Poignant, beautifully detailed memoir
*Irish Times, Best Debuts of 2018*
Brave and illuminating
*Sunday Business Post*
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