A haunting literary memoir of a journey through mental illness and the psychiatric healthcare system, from the award-winning author of }Eve & The New Jerusalem{. 'Eloquent, compassionate, and utterly absorbing...' Sarah Water Presents a memoir of a young historian, who was admitted in England's largest psychiatric institution, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital. This memoir tells the story of author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century.
