· Poppy Shakespeare. by Clare Allan. pp, Bloomsbury, £ Books, like human beings, can be extremely vulnerable. They venture into a Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Something new will have to be minted for Poppy Shakespeare and her author, Clare Allan This is a debut novel, but already Allan is a literary force to contend with, one of those rare, oh-too-rare, writers who can make your mind and heart and guts flip in simultaneous somersaults. Don't give this a miss. Highly original and darkly funny, Clare Allan's debut novel explores the relationship between N., a patient in a mental institution, and Poppy Shakespeare, a new and disturbingly 'sane' arrival who finds herself having to feign mental illness in order to be released.4/5(39).
The most extraordinary look at madness since One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Highly original and darkly funny, Clare Allan's debut novel explores the relationship between N., a patient in a mental institution, and Poppy Shakespeare, a new and disturbingly sane' arrival who finds herself having to feign mental illness in order to be www.doorway.ru are 25 residents at the Dorothy Fish, one for. Highly original and darkly funny, Clare Allan's debut novel explores the relationship between N., a patient in a mental institution, and Poppy Shakespeare, a new and disturbingly 'sane' arrival who finds herself having to feign mental illness in order to be released. There are 25 residents at the Dorothy Fish, one for each letter of the. Who is mad? Who is sane? Who decides?Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a hospital in North London. N has been a patient for thirteen years. Day after day she sits sm.
Something new will have to be minted for Poppy Shakespeare and her author, Clare Allan This is a debut novel, but already Allan is a literary force to contend with, one of those rare, oh-too-rare, writers who can make your mind and heart and guts flip in simultaneous somersaults. Don't give this a miss. It's not the done thing to laugh at people with mental illness, but while reading Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan it is almost impossible to suppress a little chuckle every now and then. The tale of Poppy Shakespeare is narrated by N (we never know her by any other handle), a long-term client of the Dorothy Fish day care centre for people with mental illness. "Poppy Shakespeare" is at least in part about a mental health system that has failed everyone, not through physical abuse from the priggish nurses and sadistic orderlies we've seen in other books.
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