Author Terry Connors and his wife were living a perfectly normal life, with a normal nuclear family of one daughter and one son, in a normal three-bedroom house in a quiet village in the east of England. And then, out of nowhere, Ben was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. This is the story of how they coped. How they had to cope. Terry wrote it partly as catharsis; partly to help those normal families who, day in and day out, suddenly find themselves in the same, bewildering, frightening position. And to tell the world: paranoid schizophrenics are not dangerous lunatics, but normal people