num_pages: 300
description: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a semi-autobiographical account of a teenage girl's three-year battle with schizophrenia. It 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.
language: English
title: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
titlecomplete: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
characters: Helene, Carla, Miss Coral, Esther Blau, Dr. Fried (Furii), Deborah Blau, Jacob Blau
genres: Literature, Psychology, Young Adult, Classics, Novels, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 31473
publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston