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.

Girl, Interrupted 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

Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story NEW YORK TIMES

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

A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir SUNDAY TIMES

Memorable and stirring VOGUE