The Menzies Mental Health Service examines the funny, tragic, moving and very real lives of mental health workers, administrators and the people they serve, moving from the acute psych ward in The Glass House to the Outpatient clinic in The Oasis as registrar Hannah Wright trains to be a psychiatrist. In the third book Hannah takes on the rest of the hospital as she helps patients – and staff – battle and come to terms with life and death decisions.
A compelling, addictive novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine told with heart, humour and insight by Anne Buist and The Rosie Project‘s Graeme Simsion
Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital.
Hannah must learn on the job in a strained medical system, as she and her fellow trainees deal with the common and the bizarre, the hilarious and the tragic, the treatable and the confronting. Every day brings new patients: Chloe, who has a life-threatening eating disorder; Sian, suffering postpartum psychosis and fighting to keep her baby; and Xavier, the MP whose suicide attempt has an explosive story behind it. All the while, Hannah is trying to figure out herself.
With intelligence, frankness and humour, eminent psychiatrist Anne Buist tells it like it is, while co-writer Graeme Simsion brings the light touch that made The Rosie Project an international bestseller and a respected contribution to the autism conversation.
‘Highly engaging. Brings alive the frontline of mental health care’ PROFESSOR PATRICK MCGORRY AO, AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR, 2010
The Australian 27-28/4/24 : Cheryl Akle “…masterfully told, charcater-driven novel that will have you laughing and crying in equal measures.”
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