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Title: Underneath the Lemon Tree
Author: Mark Rice-Oxley
Narrator: Ben Elliot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-07-13
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But at his 40th birthday party his world crumbled as he succumbed to depression. Many men suffer from depression yet it remains a taboo subject. By telling his story, Mark Rice-Oxley hopes to enable others to tell theirs. This is a memoir that is brim-full of experience, understanding, and hope for all who read it.
Members Reviews:
Lemons into the best lemonade
What a riveting read. "Underneath the Lemon Tree" combines a deeply personal narrative -- and brilliant descriptions of the physical and psychological pain of depression (the parts on insomnia are especially memorable) -- with cogent reporting on the science of an awful illness. With a sure hand and vivid pen, Rice-Oxley takes readers on a memorable journey, leavening the rawness of the story with some terrifically funny lines: "The rain persists, as if someone left it on and went to the pub." For people suffering from depression or who know people who do, "Lemon Tree" is sustaining and enlightening, but it stands alone as a contemporary social history as well. You have to applaud a book that perceptively weaves in Dante's "Divine Comedy" and the Bay City Rollers without seeming to stretch. Rice-Oxley has taken lemons and turned them into the most refreshing lemonade!
Helpful and heartfelt
Just read the book a second time, during the beginning of a severe relapse. It's been two years, and the book is still very relevant, an important reminder that relapses will happen. But it is also brilliant in explaining why it will happen and give anyone experiencing a severe depression hope to continue struggling, there is light in the tunnel...