Days of WONDER

‘I made it my mission to turn myself into a positive-seeking searchlight’

Broke, lonely and overwhelmed by a sense of failure, Catherine Gray hit rock-bottom. But, as she reveals in this extract from her book The Joy of Ordinary, it took a surprisingly simple rethink to bring her back from the brink.

“When I was 33 I was suicidal. I had moved back home with my mum, had no savings to my name, no partner and was convinced I was going to end up alone. Left behind by all my happy, successful friends, I was increasingly sinking wine to anaesthetise my despair. However, a year later, I had become a totally different person;