{"product_id":"9781529155556-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head","title":"I Made You Up Inside My Head","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautifully written, intellectually rewarding and profoundly moving\u003c\/b\u003e . \u003cb\u003ean incredibly important book for our time.\u003c\/b\u003e' CLOVER STROUD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Takes a tragic family destiny and paints a broad, fierce and funny, nuanced and shocking tableau about mental health. A page-turning, beautifully-written book.'\u003c\/b\u003e SUSANNA CROSSMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lyrical, compelling and necessary in its exposure of the brutality of psychiatric medicine in history . Be prepared to be shocked and deeply moved.'\u003c\/b\u003e LILY DUNN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*****\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrowing up, Anna Wharton was frightened of her grandmother. \u003c\/b\u003eShe was the archetypal ‘madwoman in the attic’: confined to a corner, speaking gibberish, who, according to family lore, had once been committed to an asylum. Anna could never understand the gentle care and devotion her own mother bestowed on a woman who seemed unable to love her back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany years after her death, Anna sets out to uncover the truth of her grandmother’s madness, and how it defined the women who came next. She travels to the old Victorian asylums, pores over records and family photographs, and turns to the classics of literature – from \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eThe Ha-Ha\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Girl, Interrupted \u003c\/i\u003e– to fill in the gaps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Made You Up Inside My Head\u003c\/i\u003e is Anna’s mission to make sense of how women like her grandmother were treated inside the institutions that promised to make them well. At once blazing and tender, it is a daughter’s careful excavation of a painful inheritance – and her fearless attempt to re-examine the stories that shape us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58756767318390,"sku":"9781529155556","price":15.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529155556-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}