Beter known as a travel writer rather than as a campaigner for mental health care, the author of the original Rough Guide To France and The Rough Guide to Paris tells the moving story of his son's - and thus his own - twenty-year struggle with schizophrenia. Tim believes passionately that it needed to be told, for the "outside" world - and he includes many of the professionals in that - know little of the daily reality of living with schizophrenia. He dedicates this frank, no-holds-barred account to all those who find themselves in the same boat, both sufferers and relatives, all of whom,...

Throughout the 1980s and 90s, Tim Salmon was the author ofThe Rough Guide to France, therenowned travel bible of France for the independent, savvy traveller. For 15 years, as he travelled the length and breadth of the country, the idea for his own, personal journey gradually took shape. It would be nothing to do with cathedrals and history and railway timetables but a subjective, intimate look at the country he had been married to and grown to love and know so well. It would be a slow journey on foot, but he couldn't decide on a route, until, one day, he came across an article about the old...