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The Other Side Of Snow
The Other Side Of Snow is an intimate portrayal of how much bigger life can be inside one’s mind than other people realise and the complicated emotions teenagers with mental illness can experience when trying to navigate school life and build and maintain relationships with friends and family. Also, it reaches into the tormented mind of a victim of sexual abuse incredibly to give the reader somewhat of an understanding of how the human mind processes abuse and how difficult it can be to reach out for help.
Cathy is an academically gifted mixed-race teenager who struggles with invasive
thoughts and visual hallucinations. Everything she knows changes when her family
moves from a large town in Oxfordshire to a small village in South Wales. Torn from
her long-time untroubled home, loving relatives living nearby and her only friend,
Cathy, must navigate her issues in a new country, new people, and new social cues. But
that’s not all that changes. Cathy struggles to find her way in a city where kids aren’t
friendly, with no friends at school, and feels as isolated at home with her feuding
parents.
As problems within the family spiral out of control, so does Cathy’s mind. She fights
daily to figure out the difference between reality and delusions, with a head plagued by
voices.
When Cathy wakes up in a hospital psychiatric ward after a failed suicide attempt, she
knows one thing – choosing to live can mean so much more than not dying.
After a three-year stay in a psychiatric institution, Cathy is finally considered fit to face
the world outside and is released.
Cathy has had no visitors or spoken to her family throughout her stay in this institution,
following her dad’s death in the house fire and her mum’s hospitalisation and maybe
death.
Her mum shows up a day before her release, and Cathy is surprised and angry with
her. She has lived the past three years as an orphan.
When Cathy agrees to go home with her mum, there is a ray of hope for her, and their
relationship seems genuinely on the mend. But who has been released? Can Cathy
honestly forget their past? And is she able to forgive? Or will the past catch up to them
and ruin everything?