Sarah Vaughan Is Not My Mother: A Memoir Of Madness
Author: Thomson, Maryjane
ISBN: 9781877551802
Publisher: Awa Press
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 16mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
In the tradition of The Bell Jar and Girl, Interrupted comes a stunning autobiographical account from a 29-year-old New Zealander. A creative, intelligent young woman with a loving family, in her first year of university MaryJane starts to experience nightmarish delusions and hallucinations. Her journey into madness has begun. She drops out, turns to drugs, and spends eight years in and out of psych wards, police cells, drug hangouts and on the streets. In this book she vividly describes what it is like to live with voices in your head, to lose your freedom, and to despair of ever being well again.
ISBN: 9781877551802
Publisher: Awa Press
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 16mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
In the tradition of The Bell Jar and Girl, Interrupted comes a stunning autobiographical account from a 29-year-old New Zealander. A creative, intelligent young woman with a loving family, in her first year of university MaryJane starts to experience nightmarish delusions and hallucinations. Her journey into madness has begun. She drops out, turns to drugs, and spends eight years in and out of psych wards, police cells, drug hangouts and on the streets. In this book she vividly describes what it is like to live with voices in your head, to lose your freedom, and to despair of ever being well again.
