When the beautiful home that Janita Sakoschek had built for her family burned down it caused a catastrophic breakdown. She lost everything she owned: her clothes and furniture, her diaries and photographs, her antiques and paintings and, ultimately, her sanity. We find her rooted to a borrowed sofa, chain-smoking, and blackly depressed. Friends and family try to intervene but she only resents the intrusions and the humiliations.When she finally agrees to see a psychologist, she gets incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital in a matter of days. As she records her experiences in the hospital she threads in episodes from her past and present life and we soon realise that this breakdown has been a long time coming. In the meantime she is trying to be a good denizen of the psychiatric ward, which leads to adventures and misadventures with fellow patients and staff alike. A candid, open and highly entertaining account, uniquely written.
- ISBN10 1415201331
- ISBN13 9781415201336
- Publish Date 10 August 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 October 2014
- Publish Country ZA
- Publisher Random House (Pty) Ltd South Africa
- Imprint Umuzi
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English