* Now a major film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave* A clear-sighted and unflinching memoir of an eighteen-year-old girl about her two year stay in a psychiatric hospital for depression
Tying in to a major new film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave, this is Kaysen's clear-sighted account of her two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital at the age of eighteen.
Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted is the autobiographical story of the author's time in a psychiatric award in 1967. Sylvia Plath was a patient at the same hospital in the early 1950s so inevitably comparisons have been made between Plath's The Bell Jar
