The Soul Asylums
A memoir of love, hope and recovery
Sheridan Hough
A ‘heartbreaking’ memoir of a young aspiring writer finding his one love, only to experience this unbreakable bond challenged to its limits when he finds himself locked up in the Institutions. Thirteen years later, The Soul Asylums tells the story of his fall through the cracks of the system, and the journey of a man finding his way back to love, hope, and recovery, to finally rediscover the calling of a lifetime.
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About The Soul Asylums - A memoir of love, hope and recovery...
The Soul Asylums is a story of love, hope and recovery told over the Lockdowns, while a mystery virus sweeps across the Island, of a washed up writer’s journey of self-discovery and awakening after tuning in to a broadcast by a mysterious energy channeller.
Following thirteen years in the Trenches, he begins to remember his one-time obsession with writing his ‘great’ novel, which during a time of newly wedded bliss, took him to the edge of sanity and reason, in this love story with a darkly modern twist.
When a wedding photo dramatically shatters during a storm in the enforced Lockdowns, this triggers a sequence of revealing flashbacks of the time which led to a spell in the Institutions, as he begins to confront the shadows of his past.
Faced with the memories of this fall, he recalls vanishing from the city flat shared with his pregnant wife and the life changing circumstances surrounding his arrest in a Marina boat yard, followed by the devastating consequences that would haunt himself and his young family in the years that followed.
Relocated by the ocean, renewed by the forces of nature and anchored by unconditional love, so follows a journey of recovery back to self, in this raw and unfiltered memoir with a powerful message of hope and reward for all seeking their true calling.
About the Author...
Sheridan Hough is a writer with a passion for storytelling and connection through the power of words. He began writing The Soul Asylums – A memoir of love, hope and recovery during a period of deep personal transformation over the Covid 19 pandemic.
Six years later, following recovery from mental health and addiction challenges, given a second chance as a writer reborn, his debut publication explores themes of reinvention faced at the hardest crossroads of life’s journey. Today, Sheridan spends his free time with family, beachcombing by the ocean, and a quieter life dreaming his lost novel into existence.
