Melaine Woss commited suicide nine months before her 18th birthday. A brilliant student and inspiring writer, Melaine recorded her thoughts and feelings as she battled her deppresion and got on with freindships, boys and study. Melaine is her story, pieced together from her diaries, letters, schoolwork and poems to form a rich narrative which reveals equally her fear and her love of life.
Although her story ends in tradgedy, the clarity, vivaciousness and humour of Melaine's writing provides advice and hope to all who have suffered from deppression. As she wrote in a letter to a friend, Kids need to be taught that stress exists and is very real, and, most importantly, that they can cope with it.
Her book is both moving and necessary.
