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by Frankie Bridge (Octopus £18.99, 256pp)
Pop star Frankie Bridge was at the height of her career with The Saturdays when she suffered a breakdown aged 23 and was hospitalised in 2012.
For years she tried to cover up her mood swings and panic attacks, ashamed of being paralysed by depression when to the outside world she appeared to have everything.
Her book is part-memoir, part-self-help manual, tracing the roots of her mental illness to her undiagnosed anxiety during childhood, but focusing on the positive steps anyone can take towards healing. This is no celebrity wallow in gloom Frankie’s coping mechanisms have worked well for her and she earnestly wants to share them.