Publisher's Synopsis
The Chicken Shop Incident is stark, harrowing and often humorous mental health memoir about the experiences of Daniel Best, a man who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and has to deal with its effects on a day-to-day basis.
The story begins in a dark period of Daniel's life, when he lived in an apartment in Colindale, North London, and his psychosis was just starting to manifest in violent and unpredictable ways. Through a series of flashbacks and other memories, we witness the events of Daniel's life, that led ultimately to the penultimate conclusion of the book, an altercation which shaped and characterised the man's life ever since. The Chicken Shop Incident is written for the bookshelves of anybody interested in this severe, debilitating mental health condition - doctors or family and friends of a sufferer will be illuminated, shocked and possibly amused by this tale. But also, those who have developed the illness schizophrenia, be they inpatients on some ward in a hospital, or be they long-term sufferers of the condition, will relate to what the progenitor has gone through.
