Hundreds of readers donate copies of depression memoir after Caroline Flack`s death
(The Guardian Culture News)

Prompted by a reader´s offer, donations to two bookshops have already funded hundreds of giveaways of Matt Haig´s book Reasons to Stay Alive An independent bookseller has been deluged with thousands of requests after offering to send anyone who feels they need one a copy of Matt Haig´s memoir about depression, Reasons to Stay Alive, in an initiative the author called `such a positive thing on what was a pretty bleak weekend`.Simon Key, who runs online retailer the Big Green Bookshop, was contacted by a reader, Emma, offering to buy a couple of copies of Haig´s book for people in the wake of TV presenter Caroline Flack´s death. Haig´s book details his own descent into depression, and his climb back out of it. Continue reading...