{"title":"Denise Welch","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-unwelcome-visitor-denise-welch-memoir-hardback","title":"The Unwelcome Visitor by Denise Welch - Sunday Times Bestseller Memoir - Non Fiction - Hardback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nCondition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 9781529384543\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOverview:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Unwelcome Visitor is Denise Welch's raw, deeply personal memoir charting three decades of living with clinical depression. Written with the candour that has made her a trusted voice on mental health, this Sunday Times bestselling hardback moves between painful lows and hard-won moments of hope. Welch names her depression \"the unwelcome visitor,\" describing how it returns unannounced and upends her life, career and relationships. Blending vulnerability with wit, this is an essential read for anyone touched by mental illness, whether personally or through a loved one, and a powerful contribution to the conversation around wellbeing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn The Unwelcome Visitor, Denise Welch traces her mental health journey from a postnatal depressive episode early in her career to the recurring \"visits\" that have shaped her adult life. She writes with striking honesty about the difficulty of identifying triggers, the isolation of suffering in silence, and the relief she found in finally speaking openly, including on social media, about what she was going through. Best known for her decades on screen in Coronation Street and as a panellist on Loose Women, Welch uses this platform not to entertain but to educate, stripping away the glamour to reveal the exhausting reality behind her public persona. The book weaves career milestones with the private battles happening alongside them, discussing therapy, medication, family strain and the long road towards self-acceptance. Readers consistently note the book's warmth and dark humour sitting alongside its unflinching subject matter, making difficult material more accessible without diminishing its seriousness. The result is a memoir that functions as both personal history and practical companion, offering comfort to readers navigating their own depression. 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Over a career spanning more than four decades, she has become one of the most outspoken and trusted voices on depression and anxiety in British media, drawing on her own lived experience to challenge stigma. 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What does he want, and how far is he prepared to go? As his questions press on old wounds, Kathryn must decide whether to protect her family with more lies, or finally risk everything by telling the truth. Told with warmth, grit and a keen understanding of class, motherhood and reinvention, the novel moves between the present-day threat and flashbacks to Kathryn\/Kelly's adolescence, gradually revealing the choices that shaped her. 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