Cuckoo Club

<b><font size =4>By Cairns Clery</b></font><p><p><p><b>ISBN: </b>9781847471161<br><b>Published: </b>2007<br><b>Pages: </b>414<br><b>Key Themes: </b>grief suicidal thoughts gender-dysphoria schizophrenia self-harm eating disorders<p><b><font size =4>Description</font></b><p>Cuckoo Club is a compelling epic novel spanning twenty years in the lives of five people with mental and physical health issues. In a readable and accessible manner it addresses grief and suicidality not to mention anorexia self-harm gender-dysphoria schizophrenia and alcoholism! Despite this apparently grim subject matter Cuckoo Club is life-affirming joyful and funny. It presents strange and extreme people as normal and everyday and the normal and everyday as often strange and extreme. Above all Cuckoo Club tells an immediately involving story about people you will want to know more about.<p><b><font size =4>About the Author</b></font><p>Cairns Clery is a registered psychotherapist who has written two previous novels and has published papers and chapters in professional journals and books. Cairns was once admitted as an in-patient to a psychiatric hospital and treated with ECT. Cairns has felt lucky and privileged ever since trying to help other people become a little less troubled. Still uncertain about what exactly makes us who we are Cairns long ago decided it is really relationships with others with everyone but with family and friends in particular which gives a person her or his truest sense of self.