Review: Not enough stars to praise this book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2012
I haven't come across such an original account of the need for more understanding in the treatment of so called mental illness since Marge Piercey's Woman on the Edge of Time. This book is written with compassion and humaneness and uses some of the most beautiful language I've ever read. By the end of the book, you realise that it is the supposedly sane majority whose minds are divided by protective walls and barriers that prevent them from seeing life's truths and cause them to dismiss their brief moments of insight as silly tricks and aberrations of the brain. 'I studied the spaces between all things for I have come to believe that is where the truth lies,' says Simon Anthony, the hero of Tollesbury Time Forever, thus displaying an almost Buddhistic sense of realisation. His journey to resolve the wound to his psyche, and to reconnect with love captured and involved me from the first page to the last word. Stuart Ayris deserves the many five star reviews this masterpiece has gathered.