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Title: Transfixing, Startling and True
Review: I have had CFS for 10 years and have endlessly struggled to understand why the person I have become no longer "works' in the world out there. Katt Duff sheds a beautiful, gentle and insightful light on this question in her beautifully written account of the nature of illness. It is more than this though, it is a spellbindingly familliar (to those of us who are ill) account of the EXPERIENCE of being ill. In short I wept for myself when I read this book but was also profoundly relieved to, at last, make sense of an experience for which we are so little prepared, is profoundly affecting, and yet which is likely to come to us all one day - namely - being ill. A beautiful book. Read it if you are yourself unwell, if you want to understand someone close to you who is unwell, or if you just want to learn more about all aspects of the human condition: the inner as well as the outer, the dark as well as the light, the soft as well as the strong.
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