Train lord. Oliver Mol. 2022.

An arresting memoir of a ten-month migrainc, a rocovery in Australia, and a job on the railway when there were no other options. Oliver Mol was a successful, lively, healthy twenty-five-year-old. Then one day the migraine started. For ten months the pain was constant, exacerbated by writing, reading and anything with a screen. Slowly, Oliver began to disappear. One evening, Oliver googled the only thing he could think of: 'full-time job, no experience, Sydney'. An ad for a train guard appeared. For two years Oliver watched others live their lives, observing the intimacy of strangers brought together briefly and connected by the steady march of time. Until, at last, he found a way back to his own. Exquisitely written and bravely told, Train Lord is a scaringly personal yet hugely relatable book, which asks what happens when your sense of self is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back.