As the story unfolds Coehlo relates the impact Veronika's death sentence has on several characters and their paths to 'recovery'. The characters come across as 'normal' people who have become tired with society and trying to fit into the 'norms' and rules that have been set for all. Coehlo challenges the notion of insanity. The book centres around Veronika and the impact her stay has on some of the other patients. After contemplating suicide for sometime she eventually tries, fails and wakes up to find herself in Villete, the mental institution consigned to an illness that means she will die in days. Veronika is a young, single, attractive girl who tires of what she sees as the banality of her life and the hopelessness of everything in the world. Often giving hope and inspiration I find his books insightful and perceptive. I always enjoy Coehlo and more often than not I find that I can take words, sentences and paragraphs that resound.
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