POPPY SHAKESPEARE
Book ID/图书代码： 00200005B11593
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Dorothy Fish是倫敦北部的一家精神醫院。這裡面共有25位精神患者，每位病人全都依照英文字母的順序來編排分類，唯有字母”X”的房間是空的。這家醫院的建造方式也很特別，它蓋的如同一座高塔，高的直達天際，甚至住在最高樓層的人，可以觀望整個倫敦。而這家醫院的管理方法就是，只要你病的愈重，你就能住的愈高。
病患N號，已經在這家醫院待了13年了，她每天可以安安靜靜的抽菸或是私下和她結交的朋友偷換藥物。她最大的目標就是，永遠不要被換到其他樓層。每年到了評估她病情的時間，她都很安心的聽到她的病情沒有任何進展，直到Poppy Shakespeare的到來。Poppy Shakespeare相信自己不是瘋子，從到來之後她就渴望回到正常人的生活。不願意被換房間的N很樂意能幫她這個忙，而接下來六個月的日子，卻將徹底改變她們的一生。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Clare Allan曾經是英國衛報和多家雜誌的專欄作家，她是第一位榮獲柑橘文學獎最佳短篇故事獎得主，POPPY SHAKESPEARE 是她首部長篇小說。
Clare Allan lives in London. This is her first novel.
Format:HARDCOVER
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