The World Behind The Door: Memories Lost, Truth Found - A Memoir of Survival and Resilience

When memory shatters, can a life be rebuilt?

As a child, Derry O'Leary was misdiagnosed, slipped into a coma, and survived a brain tumour-waking to a world where his past was missing. What remained were fragments of a life he could no longer fully remember, like pieces of glass scattered across the years.

But even shattered glass can catch the light.

In his thirties, Derry began the long journey of piecing himself back together: relearning language and relationships, rebuilding identity, and d...