{"product_id":"9781860497926","title":"Girl, Interrupted : TikTok made me buy it! by Susanna Kaysen","description":"The bestselling book that inspired the cult classic film, Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.   \"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 \"Intelligent and painful\" Guardian\"Poignant, astonishing memoir\" New York TimesIn 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.   A clear-sighted, unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane and insane, Kaysen's extraordinary memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205772345522,"sku":"9781860497926","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781860497926_83a95566-a252-41ac-a6d7-aa6ff4eb2d40.jpg?v=1698855596","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781860497926","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}