My Lovely Wife
28 June 2018
Imprint: Bluebird
Synopsis
My Lovely Wife is a powerful memoir of one man's overwhelming love for his wife through mental illness and psychosis.
Mark and Giulia fell for each other in their teens, married in their 20s, and didn't realize what their love would demand of them until Giulia suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break at the age of twenty-seven. Hospitalized for almost...
Details
28 June 2018
320 pages
9781509805969
Imprint: Bluebird
Reviews
A dazzling, loving and hugely courageous bookThe Times
A compassionate and deeply honest accountGuardian
This gorgeous memoir gives readers a raw and unvarnished account of what it’s like to live with and love someone with a severe mental illness. There are moments of gut-wrenching sadness—but, ultimately, the story is hopeful, even triumphant. This book basically tore out my heart and then lovingly sewed it back in placeSusannah Cahalan, author of Brain on Fire
It’s possible that understanding the terrifying and excruciating process of being placed in a mental institution can be best understood by the person who loves you most. Mark Lukach lyrically transforms our understanding of love, mental illness, patience, and devotion in this stunning memoir which chronicles falling in love with a woman whose mental condition eventually changed their lives forever. With moving and touching prose, this book truly describes what it’s like to have the picture of your life smashed in an instant and subsequently reassembled miraculously.Mayim Bialik, PhD, neuroscientist, actress and New York Times bestselling author