Am

by Simon Plant

Only upon publication do I realise this book's first part of this book Am is only a fragment of a book I wrote largely in the eighties about my search for my mind after a serious mental breakdown after leaving Oxford University in 1976,my subsequent conversion to Christianity and the development of a personal relationship with Jesus.It also describes some of the relationships in my life,my mother,my father,my ex wife and my brothers and sisters,plus a few friends,and associates.Their names are disguised!It is written in broken language to evoke my mentality at the time.Please forgive some of the errors in text,because i haven't had the time or patience(!)to work any more on it because it belongs in the past.However some of the 'errors' are deliberate,I was thinking very much of James Joyce's style in Ulysses.The second half,Regime in the Head,written before AM,is about my life in the mental health system and the Church of England,and is largely a diary.

71 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2012