Poppy Shakespeare
Poppy Shakespeare is a novel about mental illness by Clare Allan. It tells the story of day patients at a mental health hospital. The central characters are Poppy Shakespeare, a new patient, and "N", a long term patient. Poppy arrives at the hospital strongly asserting that she is sane and demanding that she is released from the program. To gain legal aid she must first prove she is sick so that she can get "MAD money", a.k.a. state benefits. She is befriended by N, who helps her work the system.
Author Clare Allan spent ten years in a mental health institution.
The book was adapted by Cowboy Films to a 90-minute drama shown on Channel 4 on 31 March, 2008 and starred Anna Maxwell Martin as N and Naomie Harris as Poppy.[1] The book was short-listed for the BT Mind Book of the year 2007[2] and long-listed for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007.[3]
[edit] References
- Allan, Clare (3 April 2006), Poppy Shakespeare, Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-0747580461
- Faber, Michel (April 1, 2006), "It's a MAD world", The Guardian, http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,1744103,00.html
Review in Metapsychology Online
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