I'm reading this book, and I must say, I'm shocked at what this woman had to go thorough. I don't see how a mother could do this to her daughter, who simply had a drinking problem! I'm only seventy pages in and I'm completely hooked, and horrified.

man, ive been looking for that book for years. can't find it anywhere.
i'll probably have to resort to amazon.com

i got this book at the library and ejoyed it a lot.
i heard it wasnt that accurate though. i think there's a lot of debate over that.

I've heard it was edited by her friend Jean Ratcliffe or something. And some information is supposedly fictionalized, I'm not entirely sure though. I've read different opinions on things, but I think it's probably the most truthful account of what happened to her.

There's two other books about her

Shadowland, which has proved to be VERY inaccurate and spread that she was lobotomized; which I believe has been disproved.

and another book by her sister, which is trying to "save" her family's reputation. I don't remember what it's about, but I'm not really interested in reading it.

Catatonicx: I believe the book is about 20 bucks (in PAPERBACK!). If you have a library close to you, see if they interlibrary loan (that is if they don't have it in the library).

Its a great book. Sickly disturbing but mesmerising. This kind of thing happened all the time back then though. if women did not conform to what society expected of them, they were labelled, quite literally, insane.

The film is worth watching too, although the book is obviously more powerful.