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Description
My psychosis, for all its destruction and wrath, was a love story.
When Catherine left London for the US with her husband James, to introduce her family to their newborn son Cato, she could not have envisaged how that trip would end. Catherine would find herself in an involuntary psych ward in New Jersey, separated from her husband and child, unable to understand who she was, and how she had got there.
It's difficult to know where the story of psychosis begins. Was it the moment I met my son? Or was it decided in the before, something rooted deeper in my fate, generations ago?
In an attempt to hold on to her sense of self, Catherine had to reconstruct her life, from her early childhood, to a harrowing previous relationship, and her eventual marriage to James.
The result is a powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience – of how we love, live and understand ourselves in relation to each other.
Product details
| Published | 19 Mar 2020 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781526619082 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Circus |
| Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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This striking story of motherhood and psychosis grips ... A highly accomplished memoir. Cho deftly weaves the strands of her experience to create something striking and original
Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times
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Veers away from being a heart-warming tale of triumph over trauma; it lays out, with frightening clarity, the spiralling pressures of new motherhood and the unvarnished reality of mental breakdown
Guardian, Best Autobiography and Memoir of 2020
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A brilliantly frightening memoir about Cho's two weeks on the psychiatric ward, elegantly interwoven with tales from her past
Lara Feigel, Guardian
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Feels like an important piece of reportage about the condition as well as a gripping personal story
Sebastian Faulks, Spectator, Books of the Year
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A courageous and powerful book
Times Literary Supplement
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In honest and intricate detail, Inferno traverses between past traumas and present-day experiences
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