Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression - Hardcover

Publisher's description. A stark and lyrical memoir of the steep descent into madness and the slow, agonizing recovery that follows. In 2013, Jay Griffiths suffered a devastating year-long episode of hypomania and extreme depression. Tristimania is the extraordinary, brave and painfully honest account of that year. (Penguin)

If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does. (John Berger)

Jay Griffiths is one of the most perceptive and lyrical writers working today...Tristimania [is] elegant, inspiring, a triumph in every sense. This is a book that gives us all an uncompromised and hard-earned sense of hope. (New Statesman, Books of the Year)

Jay Griffiths' courage and energy are formidable, but so is her sheer intelligence and literary flair. Her work isn't just good - it's necessary. (Phillip Pullman)

Griffiths' fearless, untamed writing style is equal in measure to Kahlo's brushstrokes... utterly original. (Northern Rivers Echo)

A glimpse of madness from inside the eye of the storm... (Observer)