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Girl, Interrupted

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    • Susanna Kaysen
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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

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  • Published: Jan 23 2025
  • Pages: 192
  • 196 x 126mm
  • ISBN: 9780349019598
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Press Reviews

  • Scarlett Curtis

    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. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women
  • Guardian
    Intelligent and painful
  • Scotland on Sunday
    Girl, Interrupted is superb, poignant and more powerful for its lack of romantic inflation, whining, or self-congratulation
  • New York Times Book Review
    Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story
  • The Times
    A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir
  • Vogue
    Memorable and stirring . . . Fascinating. A powerful examination not only of Kaysen's own imperfections but of those of the system that diagnosed her
  • Time
    Not since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim