Voices in My Head

Publisher's Review 

What do you do when your life turns upside-down and just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does? As an only child, the teenage Tess has always found it difficult to make friends. She and her mother have never been close and when her beloved father dies, she buries her grief in her studies and consoles herself with dreams of university and freedom from her mother’s control. But the wall she has built around herself is effective in some respects, dangerous in others.

Before she can change the vision to a real plan, the conflict between the two escalates, her mother loses patience and Tess suddenly finds herself consigned to the local mental home for a period of ‘observation’. This is where her psychiatrist father worked and had once been a place of familiarly. But things have changed. The new reality is that Tess is no longer the doctor’s daughter, but an inpatient.

But, although she doesn’t know it at the time, she is standing at the threshold of a journey of self-discovery, a circuitous road along which she has to travel to free herself from the difficulties of the past.

The magnetic story of a lonely child caught in the middle of a love that went wrong, The Voices in My Head highlights how our lives give rise to stories and, in turn, how stories can influence lives: the point at which truth becomes fiction – and fiction truth.

An intense and emotional psychological page-turner.