The Far Side of the Moon Audiobook Libro.fm

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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 Guantnamo 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 Dicks death when Clive inherited more than 3000 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 fathers 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 minds hinterlands can impact a family and shape a life

Clive Stafford Smith 2022 P Penguin Audio 2022