Suzy Johnston broke new ground in personal accounts of recovery from mental illness in her outstanding autobiography The Naked Bird Watcher. Building on issues raised in that first book, The Snow Globe Journals charts first-hand the daily experiences and challenges facing anyone with a long-term mental condition - from psychosis, feelings of suicide and paranoia and the compulsion to self-harm through to being admitted to and living in a psychiatric ward and the staging posts on the long road to recovery. This is a frank, uncompromising and coherent description of what it is like to experience and combat mental illness, written by an author whose previous work has received international praise and recognition in media interviews, academic journals and throughout the mental healthcare profession.