Sarah Vaughan Is Not My Mother: A Memoir Of Madness

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In the tradition of The Bell Jar and Girl, Interrupted comes a stunning autobiographical account from a 29-year-old New Zealander. A creative, intelligent young woman with a loving family, in her first year of university MaryJane starts to experience nightmarish delusions and hallucinations. Her journey into madness has begun. She drops out, turns to drugs, and spends eight years in and out of psych wards, police cells, drug hangouts and on the streets. In this book she vividly describes what it is like to live with voices in your head, to lose your freedom, and to despair of ever being well again.

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I was stunned when I read this book. The voice of MaryJane Thomson rings out from another galaxy where the bizarre is normal, giving insight not just into mental illness but all of the human mind. A compelling triumph, heart-wrenching and enlightening" Alan Duff, author of Once Were Warriors

Author Bio

MaryJane Thomson is a writer, an artist, and a photographer.