The Far Side of the Moon
- Author Clive Stafford Smith
- Narrator Clive Stafford Smith
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 19 May 2022
- Run Time 12 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Coping with depression and other mood disorders, Ethical issues: capital punishment, Family and health, Medicine: general issues, Memoirs, Mental health services, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Social welfare and social services, Society and Social Sciences, Sociology: family and relationships.
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As one of our leading campaigners for justice, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has spent a lifetime getting to know his clients - from detainees in Guantánamo Bay to prisoners facing execution on Death Row - and finding out, in his own words, 'what makes them tick'.
But for much of his life, closer to home, there was a man whose mind remained off limits: his own father. It was only years after Dick's death, when Clive inherited more than 3,000 of his letters, that he could finally take a breath and start to piece together the obsessive personality behind them.
In The Far Side of the Moon, Stafford Smith seeks the broad conversation about mental illness that was not accessible in his earlier years, reflecting on his father's fragmented life together with that of Larry Lonchar, a client who also struggled with severe depression, and whose fate continues to preoccupy him.
Following the critically acclaimed Injustice, this courageous new book is an indictment of the failures in our social and justice systems, a meditation on privilege and its consequences, and an intimate exploration of how the mind's hinterlands can impact a family and shape a life.
© Clive Stafford Smith 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
[A] vivid, inquiring memoir… In unpicking this history within himself, in what is a properly soul-searching book, Stafford Smith finds useful ways to ask the hardest of questions about crime and punishment
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