Deborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone

Deborah Hill Cone is a New Zealand Herald and Next magazine columnist and psychotherapy student. She was the winner of the novice category of the Katherine Mansfield Literary Award in 2013. She is also proud to be a writer for two seasons of TV soap opera Filthy Rich. Deborah was born in Durban, South Africa in 1967.

Trying to beat anxiety with brute force: A review of a new, very weird, Australian self-help book

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“I know it may appear mean-spirited,” says Deborah Hill-Cone, “to write a bad review about anyone who has the courage to speak publicly about their mental illness.” And then she proceeds to write the bad review. Sarah Wilson writes in First We Make the Beast Beautiful, “I’d spent my life agile and I arrogantly traded … Read more