2 recent ones from me.
Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney
A very real-feeling and relatable story of a middle-class suburban mother who just calmly walks out one day. I thought it was brilliantly written, very thought provoking and poetic in places. Highly recommend.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/breakdown/cathy-sweeney/9781474618519
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Not a new book but one that's been on my list for a while. It's a memoir by a Parisian fashion editor who has a stroke and is left paraplegic with locked-in syndrome. He cannot move or talk, other than blinking his left eyelid, which he used as a communication technique to dictate this book, letter by letter. His condition is the stuff of nightmares, yet the most amazing thing about this is his love for life, how positive he is, and a very rare insight into what it's like to be in this state. You wouldn't necessarily think about some of the things he misses most, like losing the opportunity to have a sense of humour because by the time he's dictated his witty response, it's several minutes later and the moment has passed. I thought it was a profound piece of work.