Lonely Boy: Musings on Death, Mental Health and Relationships by Daragh Fleming

Lonely Boy: Musings on Death, Mental Health and Relationships by Daragh FlemingDaragh Flemings honest portrayal of mental health, wellbeing and recovery opens with a quote from Seneca, Moral Letters that states: I will keep constant watch over myself. Throughout Flemings Lonely Boy, loss, friendship and death are at the forefront, and they are observed with a quiet awareness. It is at times a memoir, at times a guide, but it is always conscious of what it is doing. Fleming, as in life, is keeping a constant watch over his

He is a man made of pieces

but she's heard all about it

From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory'

To many this was a price worth paying

'I underlined passages on almost every page of this wide-ranging

challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake'

and did you know that you could catch a yawn

part essay on grief

gone - had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighbourhood

every day is filled with adventure

They regard this disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying

With a heart-wrenching fairytale ending