Dimensions
160 x 236 x 36mm
In trying to die, Brent Runyon found the courage to live. 'The Burn Journals' is his story . . .
Brent Runyon, a super-smart boy from a well-to-do family in Virginia, had it all. But home pressures, school pressures, life pressures, were suffocating him - and aged fourteen he set fire to himself. He survived the blaze, but he had lost eighty-five per cent of his skin.
'The Burn Journals' is Brent's account of the traumatic year following his suicide attempt. In the Burn Unit of a children's hospital he undergoes skin grafts, physical and psychological therapy and tries to face up to very real fears about re-entering the world outside as a changed person. And although his physical scars are deep, the psychological ones run deeper.
Breathtakingly honest, shocking and heartwarming, 'The Burn Journals' is the story of one boy's courage and determination to overcome terrible physical and mental trauma.
