The problem is that the same word also attached to people who may have extreme anxiety conditions that will totally derail their lives. Then, after that 25% mark, I began to see the cracks emerge, and slowly watched the novel crumble apart.

Yes, where I live, just over the water from Dundee, I can run up the hill at the back of the house and within five minutes I'm on to farm tracks and paths. Does this mean the father is alive, or that some other person or strange being is at hand, playing a nasty and frightening trick on the narrator? The Scottish highlands play their part perfectly and help create an equally intense but beautiful backdrop that brings despair and hope in equal measure.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. So I guess running is for you both a tool for managing mental health but, in a way, it’s also a metaphor for it?

But I think if, if at any point in our lives, we introduce some running to it, that's going to make things better. This is his debut novel, which he wrote over the course of several years in secret twenty-minute bursts, while on the bus to and from work (he missed his stop more often than he cares to admit! To me, there just was no point to reliving that experience, without any pay-off or new insight to be gained. Chris Carse Wilson is an author and lifelong runner who uses exercise and nature to manage his mental health. I was a decent club runner but nothing out of the ordinary, but I loved it and with a few breaks I’ve continued ever since.When I sat down and read the final 100 pages in one sitting, I found I connected more with the rhythm and the cadences of the story. There is a sense that both father and son are looking for “closure” on real events that have real or unreal consequences.