"Songs of Three Islands" is an extraordinary book by Millicent Monks detailing the profound and devastating effect mental illness has had on herself and her family. She tells us of how it felt being a school child living with her mother in Boston and seeing her slide into what can only be described as a catastrophic mental breakdown, and then after Millicent married and gave birth to her first child Cassandra she saw her change and become mentally ill bit by bit.
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