Relative stranger
Subtitle: a life after death
By: Mary Loudon
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Chivers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9781405637657; 9781405637664
Subjects: Family; Schizophrenics; Biography; Sisters; Large type books; Families
Description: Mary Loudon's eldest sister, Catherine, was a schizophrenic who withdrew from her family before her death from cancer, aged 47. Mary was determined to find out what happened during the missing years and discovered that her sister had lived her last eight years as a man called Stevie, in a state of chaos in a council flat in Bristol. This is a heartrending account of the devastation that schizophrenia can visit upon a family.
Notes: Originally published: Edinburgh: Canongate.