Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • The Unmapped Mind

  • A Memoir of Neurology, Incurable Disease and Learning How to Live
  • By: Christian Donlan
  • Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
  • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
The Unmapped Mind cover art

The Unmapped Mind

By: Christian Donlan
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Patient H69 cover art
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck cover art
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko cover art
Get Well Soon cover art
Singular cover art
Unspeakable cover art
Beyond the High Blue Air cover art
Thought X cover art
Notes on Blindness cover art
Crashing Through cover art
A Girl Behind Dark Glasses cover art
Clade cover art
Ask Me About My Uterus cover art
The Restoration of Otto Laird cover art
My Year Off cover art
The Human Kind cover art

Summary

Penguin Audio presents The Unmapped Mind by Christian Donlan, read by Daniel Weyman.

"My daughter took her first steps on the day I was diagnosed - a juxtaposition so perfect, so trite, so filled with the tacky artifice of real life that I am generally too embarrassed to tell anybody about it." 

Shortly after his daughter, Leontine, was born, Christian Donlan's world shifted an inch to the left. He started to miss light switches and door handles when reaching for them. He would injure himself in a hundred stupid ways every day. First playful and then maddening, these strange experiences were the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis, an incurable and degenerative neurological disease. 

As his young daughter starts to investigate the world around her, he, too, finds himself exploring a new landscape - the shifting and bewildering territory of the brain. He is a tourist in his own body, a stranger in a place that plays bizarre tricks on him, from dizzying double vision to mystifying memory loss. 

Determined to master his new environment, Christian takes us on a fascinating and illuminating journey: through the history of neurology, the joys and anxieties of parenthood and the ultimate realisation of what, after everything you take for granted has been stripped away from you, is truly important in life. 

An Unmapped Mind is a profoundly personal, uplifting and enriching memoir that will change the way you see your body, your mind and the world around you. 

©2018 Christian Donlan (P)2018 Penguin Audio

More from the same

What listeners say about The Unmapped Mind

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    14
  • 4 Stars
    4
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    12
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    11
  • 4 Stars
    3
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Beautiful and totally relatable

This book is amazing. Really beautifully written. The author has a gift for seeing and describing things I have overlooked, ignored or undersavoured. He has somehow managed to put much of my own experience with MS into words - so much so, that I have shared the title with many close friends and family and declared "Read this!! It's exactly how I feel!". Thank you!

Also want to note that the narration is fantastic and he has a very pleasing and listenable voice.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

3 people found this helpful