{"product_id":"girl-interrupted-3","title":"Susanna Kaysen: Girl, Interrupted [2025] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrazy 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eGirl, Interrupted\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story' NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Not since Sylvia Plath's \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim' \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir' \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'Memorable and stirring' \u003ci\u003eVOGUE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kaysen, Susanna","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50092133843283,"sku":"9780349019598","price":14.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/susanna-kaysen-girl-interrupted-9780349019598-60691230425427.jpg?v=1736402715","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/girl-interrupted-3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}