num_pages: 352
description: Who is mad? Who is sane? Who decides? Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a hospital in North London. N has been a patient for thirteen years. Day after day she sits smoking in the common room and swapping medication. Like the other patients, N's ambition is never to be discharged. Then in walks Poppy Shakespeare in a short skirt and snakeskin heels. Poppy is certain she isn't mentally ill and desperate to return to her life outside and, though baffled, N agrees to help her. But in a world where everything's upside down, are they crazy enough to upset the system?
language: English
title: Poppy Shakespeare
titlecomplete: Poppy Shakespeare
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Book Club, Mental Health, Psychology, Humor, Novels, Contemporary, Mental Illness, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1219
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Orange Prize
category: New Writers, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Guardian First Book Award
publisher: Bloomsbury