Only for a Fortnight: My Life in a Locked Ward - Couverture rigide

Read, Sue

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0747503192 ISBN 13 : 9780747503194

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1989

Synopsis

Sue Read was a "difficult" child: strong-minded, strong-willed and given to temper tantrums. Shortly after her father's death, in order to give her mother a much-needed break, a child psychiatrist recommended that Sue should be sent to a mental hospital, but "only for a fortnight". She was 12 years old and remained there for five and a half years. Much of that time was spent in Ward 19, a locked ward containing the most severely disturbed and violent adult female patients. "Only For a Fortnight" is Sue Read's own account of her life. It portrays her childhood: her taciturn father; her loving but puzzled mother; her years in mental hospital; her gradual, but eventually total, release from institutional life; her marriage; the births of two children and the traumatic effect that the death of her second child had on her. Sue Read is now 34 and lives with her husband and children in Stevenage.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Only for a Fortnight is Sue Read's own account of her life. Written with directness and great force, it vividly portrays her childhood; her taciturn father; her loving but puzzled mother; her horrifying years in the mental hospital; her gradual, but eventually total, release from institutional life; her marriage; the births of two children; and the traumatic effect that the death of her second child had on her. It was the aftermath of this tragedy that Sue Read wrote this powerful book, to which, more recently, she has added a moving and uplifting epilogue.

Présentation de l'éditeur

An intensely moving, frequently shocking account of a child's life in an adult mental hospital.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747503192
• ISBN 13: 9780747503194
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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