Here Comes the Sun

Jeremy Oxley,Mary Oxley Griffiths

Here Comes the Sun
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Country
Australia
Published
24 June 2015
Pages
336
ISBN
9781760110093

Here Comes the Sun

Jeremy Oxley,Mary Oxley Griffiths

An inspirational and heart-wrenching memoir of fame, schizophrenia, struggle and love by Sunnyboys frontman Jeremy Oxley and his wife Mary Oxley Griffiths.

Jeremy Oxley was diagnosed with schizophrenia aged 22, at the height of his fame as singer of the popular band Sunnyboys. Terrified and in denial, he tried to hide his diagnosis from family, band mates and friends, who attributed his erratic and sometimes terrifying behaviour to drug and alcohol abuse.

Following harrowing experiences with the woeful mental health services of the day, Jeremy took himself off his prescription drugs and self-medicated with alcohol, gradually alienating friends and family alike till he became a hermit living in a small town in New South Wales, shut off from any kind of life or support.

A Sunnyboys fan, Mary Griffiths was a nurse who had been widowed for five years with young twin boys. After being shocked to discover how Jeremy was living, she and her sons determined to find him and help him. At their first meeting, Mary was able to see through Jeremy’s illness and recognise signs of the sensitive, beautiful and frightened man within. Her boys instantly loved him and he in turn was immediately calm around them.

Jeremy’s willingness to get well under Mary’s guidance was driven by a deep desire to have the things we all mostly take for granted: a loving family, security, and control of his health and life. Slowly, painfully, but together, Jeremy and Mary put everything into reclaiming his life and building a family.

That struggle is told here for the first time by Mary and Jeremy, whose distinctive voices trace Jeremy’s remarkable journey from darkness to the light, and from the depths of despair to hope and love. It will move and inspire all who read it.

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