The Quarantine Diaries: A (crazy) Story of A Lockdown (English Edition)

"'The Quarantine Diaries' is witty, and provides insightful stories everyone would have encountered. It provides personal realism and one can easily relate to with happiness, frustration and delight to life in the Pandemic. 'The Quarantine Diaries' has humour and a variety of interesting reflexive anecdotes in a self-quarantine environment"
-- Eric CK Chan (Life coach, NLP Practitioner, author of 'The Key to Coaching. Learning, Application and Practice')

GENTLE DISCLAIMER: this is a personal experience, written from a lighthearted and quirky perspective. Because the author was going through hell and she needed to focus on the micro-joys of her everyday life in lockdown. This diary is what got her through the 2 months she spent alone and isolated in her room (with a balcony).

Okay! Now we're ready to go :)

Welcome to the diaries that saved my mental health during the craziest period of contemporary history. This is a novel written from my positive outlook during the First Lockdown, even though everything around me was pretty dark. I would write to cheer myself up and keep the motivation. This is a diary I wrote with the aim of cultivating the art of hope and wired me into a state of joy. Not because everything around me was joyful, but because I would set myself into seeing the micro-joys of my day. Everyday. And this diary is the manifest that shows it.

Dear reader, welcome to the driftwood that saved me from sinking in the shadows depression.

Back in March 2020 I thought nothing could stop me.

I was recently single, living in a beautiful and spacious room (with a balcony) for a fair price in north London, and enjoying every single bite of life. My adventurous self reemerged, and I would organise monthly solo trips without a special plan. My social life was busy and flourishing. I was 29, and loving my freedom. Happy to be alone.
Living like a rolling stone. Living nonstop.

And then... oh well. A kidney infection forced me to stop in early March 2020.
And then... well, we know. The One Not To Be Mentioned attacked.

And when the whole world stopped, I decided to keep my adventure going... in my room.

'The Quarantine Diaries' started as a daily entry on my website, as a way to look for the adventure in the everyday, to stay positive and find the joy in the little things the day would bring... And this is how without planning or expecting it, my daily stories became an illustrated book that narrate how 2 months of lockdown became the biggest adventure I ever lived.

"I enjoyed 'The Quarantine Diaries'. I felt as though I were living life along with an author who became a fast friend. Marta Gèpe is funny, entertaining, and charming." -- Writer's Digest

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