The Journey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780993501555)

Vendor: Jimmy Smyth
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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The Journey

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The Journey

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The Journey At the age of seventeen, Mary Harper has already led a full and hectic life; surviving poverty, hardship, and an alcoholic father, to become a beautiful, charismatic and charming young woman. Mary has a job she loves, her first boyfriend, wonderful caring friends and money to spend - at least everything is seemingly perfect. That is, until one fateful night when Mary's world comes crashing down around her. Having been brutally raped, she slowly becomes stripped of everything that made her life great - her happiness, freedom, family, friends and finally, her sanity. After her rapist poisons her father's mind with vicious lies; a now-pregnant Mary gets a diagnosis that will change her life forever and once she's locked up in the lunatic asylum, it seems like she has lost all hope of every living a normal, happy life. What will happen to her child? How will she cope with the violence, abuse and brutal so-called treatments at the lunatic asylum? Will Mary ever be free from the 'Big House'? Will she ever find the love and happiness she deserves and so desperately craves? Set in the rural region of Kilbarra in the 1930s: The Journey will take you back to a time where life was harder, tougher and much more challenging. Closely following Mary's sad story; the lives of her mother, sister, two brothers and the illegal antics of her alcoholic father; this book will draw you into the lives of these characters and the intriguing ways of this small rural community.

Author: Jimmy Smyth
ISBN-10: 0993501559
ISBN-13: 9780993501555
Publisher: Excalibur Press
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2015
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.08w x 0.65d
By Jimmy Smyth
By Jimmy Smyth
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Jimmy Smyth comes from a mental health, nursing and social work background. He is the author of several children's books and a number of non-fiction books. Having since retired from the NHS in the UK, Jimmy is now a counsellor, life coach and mindfulness teacher with a number of charities and private clients and is one of the partners in the Health & Wellbeing Company, based in Northern Ireland. The idea for The Journey came to him in 1980, when he was looking through old notes, in the basement of the psychiatric hospital where he worked. The hospital had opened its doors as a lunatic asylum in 1869. To this day he wonders whether he heard the voice of a young girl incarcerated in the cold, dark, lifeless building. Steeped in history, the basement held the deepest secrets of the patients who battled their own minds and the brutality of the system they were imprisoned in. Or maybe his imagination just run away with itself? Regardless, the quest to tell Mary's story began and the idea to bring her to life in this novel was planted. Throughout the years Jimmy believes the quiet, sweet voice of the girl who spoke to him that first day continued to remind him of his goal. As well as this novel, Jimmy is in the process of finishing a non-fiction book about the history of women and mental illness. Meanwhile, what has become of the voice of the woman in his head desperate to tell her story? She's still there and isn't planning on leaving anytime soon.

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