Shortlisted for an Amazon Rising Star Award Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016 Ѕelected for WHSmith Fresh Talent 2017 Wilven does a masterful job of keeping his readers as off-balance as his protagonist... an intense and satisfyingly off-beat examination of a man lost in a landscape of unresolved grief and his heroic fight to find his way back home.´ -- Melissa DeCarlo, author of The Art of Crash Landing Vince stops taking his lithium when he finds out about his partner´s pregnancy. As withdrawal kicks in, he can barely hold his life together. Somewhere between making friends with a blackbird in the back garden and hearing his dead son´s footsteps in the attic, he finds himself lost and alone, journeying through a world of chaos and darkness, completely unaware of the miracle that lies ahead. Featuring a foreword from Dr Eleanor Longdon; Dr Longden´s TED talk, Learning From the Voices in my Head, was featured on the front page of The Huffington Post and has been named by The Guardian newspaper as one of ´the 20 online talks that could change your life.´; It has been viewed over 3m times and translated into 36 languages.