We are delighted to be joined by the author Graham Morgan for this online meeting!
“Graham Morgan’s START is a remarkable and engrossing read. It buttonholed me and held my attention with its fervour, modesty, wit, self-questioning, its generosity amid corrosive fear, loss and pain. As a story through depression and psychosis and family dramas, I found it absorbing and funny, terrifying and celebratory. It is lyrical about love and being in the world, while being truly frightening. It’s fresh and direct, unguarded and brave. It made me wince and chuckle.
Yes, it’s a story about living with mental illness, but what I get from it is a sense of connection, that this is an extreme end of a spectrum we all to some extent live on, and as such it is profoundly moving and insightful. It is humane, valuable, and in an important sense deeply sane” – Andrew Greig, author of Electric Brae, That Summer, Fair Helen
“Morgan captures complex emotions with a light touch. Highly readable, Start is also a literary work with original imagery, profound insights, and above all compassion” – Cynthia Rogerson in Northwords Now
Humanist Society Scotland’s Book Group meets quarterly online via Zoom, with participants right across Scotland. New members are always welcome and you don’t need to make every meeting. It’s relaxed, informal, and we don’t charge for participation, but you do need to register in advance.
We want our book group to be a safe space for all our participants, in which everyone feels welcome, respected and comfortable. We ask that you follow the CARE principles: Confidentiality, Attention, Respect, Enjoy.
Copies of the book are available from all your usual book suppliers or local library. Another way to support independent bookshops is to order through bookshop.org.
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“My writing is about my life with Schizophrenia but it is also about my family and the natural world, about loneliness and death and alienation. That sounds pretty sobering ! I hope not! It is also about love and the joy of listening to the curlews on the Clyde and collecting seaglass from the seashore” – Graham Morgan, mental health advocate & blogger