I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

About this book

Psychological novel based on the author's experience of schizophrenia. A sixteen-year-old girl is committed to a mental hospital when she retreats into a disturbing fantasy world. This is the story of her journey back to sanity.

Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.

Subjects

• adolescence, fiction
• children's fiction
• girls, fiction
• mental illness, fiction
• mentally ill, fiction
• psychiatrie
• schizophrenie