![]() ![]() The huge amount of positive feedback I have received reflects my aim of making a still taboo subject accessible, as tragically over 100 souls a week are taking their own lives within England and Wales alone. My story takes the reader from my personal hopelessness to recovery, with sometimes almost brutal honesty, yet with large amounts of humour. Having suffered from severe depression in the mid 1980s and more recently a high level of anxiety, I can resonate with the idea of hope seeming so allusive, that thinking it’s within reach is almost unbearable. He turns to Laura the pupil he has coerced into driving him to the conference and says, ‘It’s not the despair, I can stand the despair, it’s the hope ‘. The scene that sticks in my mind is Mr Stimpson sitting on the verge of a roadway dressed as a monk with the car that is his only means of transport disappearing over the horizon. The plot revolves around an obsessively punctual headmaster, Brian Stimpson, played by John Cleese, desperately trying to get to a headteacher’s conference in Norwich. ‘Clockwise’ was one of my favourite films of the 1980s.
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