Poppy Shakespeare

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Poppy Shakespeare

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Author: Clare Allan

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Language: English

Published by: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published on: 6th March 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 352 pages

ISBN: 9781408832233


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 smoking in the common room and swapping medication. Like the other patients, N's ambition is never to be discharged. Then in walks Poppy Shakespeare in a short skirt and snakeskin heels. Poppy is certain she isn't mentally ill and desperate to return to her life outside and, though baffled, N agrees to help her. But in a world where everything's upside down, are they crazy enough to upset the system?

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