Selling the book

Writing my book had a lot of knock-on effects, one of them being that I had to get used to reading what other people think of me and the book. 

The publishers, Gill & Macmillan, have done a brilliant job promoting Dying to Survive. Here's what the publicity material says:

"'Through sheer grit and determination she pulled herself out of the hell she was living in… what an achievement. She is an inspiration.’ - Allison O’Reilly, Sky News

In her early twenties, Rachael Keogh was a desperate heroin addict. Her addiction to the drug took her to a place about as low as a person can go. She had grown up in Ballymun in difficult family circumstances and had, like many others, succumbed to the lure of drugs during her teenage years. Heroin nearly killed her.

By the time she eventually went into recovery, after a number of false starts, her arms were shrivelled, withered and blackened from the effects of repeated injections. She had suffered every degradation possible. But miraculously she managed to stop.

 This is Rachael Keogh’s own story written in her own words. She is now twenty-nine, a student of psychotherapy, an attractive and optimistic young woman. Her story is a remarkable account of recovery from the very edge of personal destruction. It is a heart-lifting story of personal human redemption."