Inner Guide

A memoir that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, Inner Guide tells the story of a child growing up with a schizophrenic mother. Told with wit, honesty and self-humour, it’s not a sad book, nor is it a book of self-pity.

Maris’ time travel back into her childhood self, gives insight into the thinking and emotions of a child slowly coming to understand and live with the fact that she has a ‘crazy’ mother – a mother whom it is impossible to please, as what pleases one minute can be somethi...