Underneath the Lemon Tree by Mark Rice-Oxley - ISBN: 9780349140308
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Crumbled at forty, depression’s grip, a man’s honest, hopeful journey.

Underneath the Lemon Tree

A Memoir of Depression and Recovery

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    28 July 2015

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Summary

On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression.

How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives haven’t seemed right? How badly askew were things for them? Many men suffer from depression yet it is still a subject that is taboo. Men often don’t visit the doctor, or they don’t want to face up to feelings of weakness and vulnerability. B…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349140308
ISBN-10:0349140308
Author:Mark Rice-Oxley
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:28 July 2015
Weight:225g
Dimensions:196mm x 129mm x 21mm
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Critics Review

An ode to joy lost and found … A lyrical account of his descent into, and gradual emergence from, the horrors of clinical depression … “What did I have to be depressed about?” he asks. His book is a quest to find the answer - Daily Telegraph

About The Author

Mark Rice-Oxley

Mark Rice-Oxley is a news editor at the Guardian specialising in foreign news. He was born in Hampshire in 1969, educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, Exeter University and Voronezh University in the USSR. He joined the Guardian after 10 years reporting and writing from Moscow, Paris and Eastern Europe. His journalism has been published in scores of titles worldwide. He lives in Kingston with his wife and three children.

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