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The Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis and Learning How to Live

The Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis and Learning How to Live


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'My daughter took her first steps on the day I was diagnosed - a juxtaposition so perfect, so trite, so filled with the tacky artifice of real life that I am generally too embarrassed to tell anybody about it.' Shortly after his daughter Leontine was born, Christian Donlan's world shifted an inch to the left. He started to miss light switches and door handles when reaching for them. He would injure himself in a hundred stupid ways every day. First playful and then maddening, these strange experiences were the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis, an incurable and degenerative neurological illness. Multiple sclerosis is a fiercely destructive disease, yet it is also, as Donlan starts to discover, a perversely creative force. As his young daughter starts to investigate her environment, he too finds himself exploring a strange new landscape - the shifting and bewildering territory of the brain.

About the Author :
Christian Donlan is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New Statesman, Edgemagazine and Vice, amongst other places. He is a features editor at Eurogamer.net. He lives in Brighton with his family.

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An amazing and wonderful piece of writing. I could not put it down A wonderful, moving, powerful and immersive book which will help anyone who has or knows someone with MS. Christian Donlan's takes us inside his mind and his beautiful relationship with his daughter, helping us to look at our own relationships from a fresh perspective. An unprecedented first-hand account of the effects of brain disease, and what it is like to have your thoughts shift from under you. Donlan brings us a poetic, compelling and wonderful book. Simply enchanting. Christian Donlan tells a riveting adventure story as he explores the mysterious paths that connect the body and the brain-and the scary and joyous land of fatherhood. He writes with vivid candour and startling humour about topics that range from the history of neurology to the maddening grey zone between illness and diagnosis. At its heart, this is a book of awe - at how the body works and doesn't, how it grows and fails, and how even the most unwelcome events can sometimes help us break free from old ways of thinking to powerful new ones. Thoughtful and quietly moving This is not a tale of tragedy but one of re-engaging with the world - or realising what's truly important Beautiful and delicately written with the power to shift your world view Remarkable and revelatory, this is a dazzling achievement This is an inspiring tale of a man trying to wrestle an incurable disease into a kind of submission, using intellect and love and logic... [A] marvellous book A poignant account of living with MS... with a total lack of self pity and much gentle humour, Donlan explores the nooks and crannies of his behaviour. [An] excellent memoir... he describes the brain in vivid, poetic detail A moving, gracefully written story In this poignant book, Donlan finds in curiosity, writing, and family the surest salves for the terror of chronic illness and mortality Really beautifully done; reminds me of When Breath Becomes Air. I love it Perhaps never before has the full palette of the inner ebb and flow of MS been so frankly exposed... Will resonate with other people with MS, and also, so importantly, with their family and friends... an invaluable resource


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780241305287
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Viking
  • Height: 204 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Sub Title: A Memoir of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis and Learning How to Live
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0241305284
  • Publisher Date: 05 Apr 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Weight: 390 gr


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