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One Year Out traces one terrible, beautiful year through addiction, public rehab, and mental unravelling – then an unexpected move to Bali, where recovery collides with wellness coaches, turpentine cleanses, and healing sold by the gram. In nine essays that are confessional, funny, and unsparingly honest, Charlotte Bell writes about what addiction does to a body and a conscience: the institutions, the friendships, the rejection, the small rituals of strangers keeping each other alive. Moving between Aotearoa and Indonesia, this is a debut that resists neat redemption – sitting instead in the messy, often absurd distance between falling apart and finding some new way to hold together.
Airini Beautrais says:\”Deeply sad in places but also
deeply funny, One Year Out is a refreshingly honest, insightful and
self-reflexive memoir in essays. Charlotte Bell writes with unflinching
clarity, aware of her own vanities and shortcomings, as well as being compassionate
towards her past and present selves, and able to acknowledge what she has
achieved in her recovery journey without taking anything, or anyone, for
granted. There is also a genuine empathy for the people around her, from
support workers and fellow addicts in recovery, to Bali travellers hoping to
find themselves. Throughout all this is the voice of a writer with a keen sense
of life’s mundane weirdness, and a poet’s knack for startling imagery. One
Year Out is a valuable addition to the personal essay genre, but also to
wider understandings about what it is like to live with mental illness and
addiction.\”
ISBN: 9781067276317
Publication date: 01/08/2026
Price: $32.00
RRP: $32.00
Format: Paperback
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Publishing status: Not Yet Published
Author: Bell, Charlotte
Imprint: Small Publisher
