num_pages: 256
description: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful 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 help herself.
language: English
title: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
titlecomplete: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
characters: Esther Blau, Deborah Blau, Jacob Blau, Dr. Fried (Furii), Miss Coral, Carla, Helene
genres: Fiction, Mental Health, Psychology, Young Adult, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Mental Illness
ratings_count: 31482
publisher: Signet Books