Born into the legendary Carnegie family, in which serious mental illness has affected four generations of women, Millicent Monks' early childhood was lonely and difficult. After a career in music she married and spent a year at Cambridge University where her husband was a Fiske scholar. They have two children and mental illness in the family has continued to play a prominent and overwhelming part in her life. Her search for answers led her to Jungian analysis, meditation and sutras which have helped her to find a delicate peace amid the effects of her devastating family inheritance.
