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1844084612 
Paperback 
Year: 2009
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is a graphic, powerful novel about breakdown, madness and confinement in mental institutions. The treatment the heroine receives during her descent into chaos is chilling in this psychological drama. General adult
224 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0747585849 
Paperback
Year: 2007
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Poppy Shakespeare walks into the Dorothy Fish Day Hospital in her six-inch skirt & 12-inch heels, she is certain she isn't mentally ill & is desperate to return to her life outside. Together with another patient, Poppy plots to gain freedom. But in a world where everything's upside-down, is she crazy enough to upset the system? General adult
341 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
1844085589 
Paperback
Year: 2009
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Short story
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: Based on the author's own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the 'rest cure' prescribed after the birth of her child. In addition to the story, this new collection includes a selection of her best short fiction and extracts from her autobiography. General adult
Title series: Virago modern classics
xii, 366 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0749391731 
Paperback
Year: 1991
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
Note: From the author of Foreign Parts, Where You Find It and Blood comes the story of Joy, a heroine struggling for order and meaning in her life. First published in 1989, this novel won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year. General adult
240 p. (pbk)
1906040230 
Paperback 
Year: 2009
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Gallic
Resource type: Physical
Note: Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He's very good at treating patients in real need of his help but many people he sees have no health problems: they're just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. When a patient tells him he looks in need of a holiday, Hector decides to set off round the world to find out what makes people happy. General adult Translated from the French
Title series: Hector's journeys
320 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0007551800 
Paperback
Year: 2014
Language: English, Portuguese
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Harper
Resource type: Physical
Note: This translation originally published: London: HarperCollins, 1999 Veronika has everything she could wish for - but is not happy. One morning she decides to die and she takes an overdose, only to wake up in hospital where she realises she has only days to live. The story follows Veronika through these intense days. General adult
195 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
0007165455 
Paperback
Year: 2007
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Resource type: Physical
Note: David McBride is a psychiatrist unusually drawn to death. When he meets a failed suicide, he finds a haunting sense that the 'other side' of his elusive patient has a strange resonance for him too. Salley Vickers traces the boundaries of life and death and the difficult possibilities of repentence. General adult
262 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0141184876 
Paperback
Year: 2001
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: A multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, moaner and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him, Herzog sees himself as one of life's survivors. Originally published: New York: Viking; London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964
Title series: Penguin classics
0006513239 
Paperback
Year: 2000
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Resource type: Physical
Note: This powerful, heartwrenching drama draws on the deepest human emotions - the need to know oneself, the responsibility to the family, and the influence of hidden history. The result is a highly acclaimed novel of survival and great sensitivity. General adult
ix, 901 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0141043784 
Paperback
Year: 2009
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Short story
Publisher: Viking
Resource type: Physical
Note: Set mostly in the wilds of Alaska, the stories featured in this book take on the shifting legend of a lost father. It features the story 'Ichthyology', where a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. General adult
228 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
0007254660 
Paperback
Year: 2008
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Resource type: Physical
Note: When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work - but she also leaves a legacy of secrets and emotional damage that will take months to unravel. General adult
374 p. ; 20 cm (pbk)
Reading Group review. Everyone enjoyed this, nothing boring in it. Excellent characterisation and structure. Good insight into mental illness and Quakerism.
20/10/17
0571226167 
Paperback
Year: 2005
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'The Bell Jar' is Sylvia Plath's account of a young woman's breakdown. Renowned for its intensity and its vivid prose, the novel follows her attempted suicide, hospitilisation and recovery. General adult
234 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)