Claire Phillips was recently interviewed by This Book That Book blog about “the process of writing such a personal memoir and the need for non-restitutive mental health stories.”

Phillips’ memoir A Room with a Darker View, praised as “a deeply personal and affecting story,” is said by the author to be “not just an illness narrative but also a bildungsroman that reflects the shadow side of a mother-daughter relationship constrained by the expectations of a patriarchal society, in which the ambitions of male family members come first, even before health.”

Click here to read the rest of Phillips’ interview.

Alongside Phillips’ interview, her memoir was featured at the top of the publication’s list of “12 Raw and Moving Mental Health Memoirs Everyone Should Read”.

Click here to purchase A Room with a Darker View.