Girl, Interrupted

Crazy isn''t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It''s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she''d never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor and Ray Charles. Unflinchingly honest and darkly funny, this bestselling memoir is a sharply vivid portrait of Susanna''s fellow patients, the kaleidoscopically shifting world of the late sixties, and how sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

''Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women''s mental health. An intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women'' SCARLETT CURTIS

''Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story'' NEW YORK TIMES

''Not since Sylvia Plath''s The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim'' TIME

''A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir'' SUNDAY TIMES

''Memorable and stirring'' VOGUE