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Title	:	Poppy Shakespeare
Author	:	Clare Allan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	April 11th 2006 by Bond Street Books (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Psychology. Health

Poppy Shakespeare

Clare Allan

Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.32 | 1112 Users | 111 Reviews

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Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Prize
Poppy Shakespeare is wholly unique -- both an insider's look at the madness of the mental health system and an outsider's discovery of the power of an unlikely friendship, it signals the arrival of an extraordinary new voice on the international literary scene.
Who is mad? Who is sane? Who decides?
Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a day hospital in North London. N has been a patient here for thirteen years. Day after day she sits smoking in the common room, swapping medication and comparing MAD money rates. Like all the patients at the Dorothy Fish, N's chief ambition is never to get discharged. Each year, when her annual assessment comes round, she is relieved to learn that she hasn't got any better.
Then in walks Poppy Shakespeare in her six-inch skirt and twelve-inch heels. She is certain she isn't mentally ill and desperate to return to her life outside. Though baffled by Poppy's attitude, N agrees to help. Together they plot to gain Poppy's freedom. But in a world where everything's upside-down, are they crazy enough to upset the system?
Funny, brilliant, and moving, Poppy Shakespeare looks at madness from the inside, questioning our mental health system and the borders we place between sanity and insanity. Written in high-voltage prose, original and troubling, it is a stunning debut.
Excerpt from Poppy Shakespeare:
"'It's not that I've got a problem with mental illness, ' Poppy said. 'It's just there's nothing the matter with me. Do you know what I'm saying?'
'I wouldn't worry bout that, ' I said. 'They must think you's mad or you wouldn't be here. Candid Headphones don't reckon she's mad. Never stopped her, ' I said. . . .
'Poppy?' I said, cause I got to say it. Be like watching a blind man walk under a bus. 'You know what you said bout not thinking you's mad?'
'Yes, ' she said, like what of it?
'Well I wouldn't say nothing to them about that, ' I told her. 'Not at the moment. I mean, don't get me wrong, I ain't saying nothing. It's just the doctors, you never know. They might decide to pick up on it. I mean, it's up to you, do you know what I'm saying, but maybe if you stick to your other symptoms.'"

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Original Title:	Poppy Shakespeare
ISBN:	0385662149 (ISBN13: 9780385662147)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for New Writers (2007), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2006)

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Ratings: 3.32 From 1112 Users | 111 Reviews

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The first two chapters contained a lot of swearing without really adding any character to the book - it was like she did it to prove she could. However after this the swearing died down (was still there but added to the character). I nearly gave it a three, except for the ending which was very disappointing - not so much the actual events in the end but that it just eneded.Its narrated by N and takes place in a day pyshiatric clinic. N comes from a long line of family members having mental

Who is mad? Who is sane? Who decides? Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a day hospital in North London! N has been a patient here for thirteen years. Day after day she sits smoking in the common room, swapping medication and comparing mad money rates. Like all the patients at the Dorothy Fish, N's chief ambition is never to get discharged. Each year when her annual assessment comes round, she is relieved to learn that she hasn't got any better. Then in walks Poppy Shakespeare in her six-inch skirt

2* 'cause. Do you know what I'm saying? On account of..Hate giving bad reviews. Especially for a book on a subject matter so dear to me. However, found this one tough to get through because I could not stand the narrator's voice. Simple as that. I'm sure some will get on with it fine, I just couldn't. The constant repetition of annoying phrases made me resort to skim reading the final 200 pages. Dialogue is a mess in places. Quotes within quotes with 'cause and 'cept and plenty of other ' thrown

This is Claire Allen's first novel and was shortlisted for The Guardian First Book award . Subsequently it was made into a drama on Channel 4 (where else) ? It is an angry, funny and often frustrating polemic on the state of mental health services in the 1990"s. The narrator a woman called N is that for narrator or butter, guides Poppy, the new inmate and the reader through the various, often incomprehensible layers of the Abaddon ( Abandon) mental health facility in North London, although for

It's been compared to a cross between Catch-22 and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. I'd add that it's Faulknerian and Kafkaesque. Not an easy read, and not flawless (it's not exactly what I'd call "action-packed," for instance), but a genuinely new take on the mental institution genre from the perspective of a lifer. N's voice is REAL. It's infiltrated my thoughts, and I keep finding myself saying, "Do you know what I am saying?" Poppy herself is not as compelling as I thought she would be, but

A tragi-comic satire on the mental health system in this country that pulls no punches. If you are going to write about mental health and mental illness youd better not be an outsider writing about what you havent experienced. Clare Allan is not an outsider, not at all. She spent ten years inside a variety of the mental health institutions of the 1990s and has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. In an interview she lists some of the things she has been diagnosed with:..paranoid

Frank, amusing and dark, I thought this book was a good read for anyone interested in mental health. I found the writing style very frustrating at first, as it's not often you read a book written in anything but eloquent prose. But once I got used to it I found that the style really made the book. It just wouldnt have been so frank and funny if it wasnt written the way that N thinks. It's hard to know where reality ends and where N's world begins, or whether she is even ill at all. Working in