Inferno: A Memoir
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- Synopsis
- 'Completely devastating. Completely heartbreaking. Written in luminous, spiralling prose' Daisy Johnson, author of Everything UnderMy psychosis, for all its destruction and wrath, was a love story.When Catherine left London for the US with her husband James, to introduce her family to their newborn son, she could not have envisaged how that trip would end. Catherine would find herself in an involuntary psych ward in New Jersey, separated from her husband and child, unable to understand who she was, and how she had got there. It's difficult to know where the story of psychosis begins. Was it the moment I met my son? Or was it decided in the before, something rooted deeper in my fate, generations ago?In an attempt to hold on to her sense of self, Catherine had to reconstruct her life, from her early childhood, to a harrowing previous relationship, and her eventual marriage to James. The result is a powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience – of how we love, live and understand ourselves in relation to each other.'Crystalline ... A brave, brilliant exploration of madness and motherhood' Harper's Bazaar, 10 women who will shape what you watch, see and read in 2020
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 272 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781526619075
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781526619082
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 08/18/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Catherine Cho
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body, Parenting and Family, Psychology, Medicine
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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