I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

by Joanne ( as Hannah Green ) Greenberg

Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, 16-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles to regain her sanity, the listener is inexorably drawn into her private suffering.

Genres: Fiction, Mental Health

Mass Market Paperback

Published January 1, 1968

Reviews

[Grace McCoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is truly ine of my favorite books ive ever read. it has truly touched me

[Оля · Rating 5 out of 5]

яка неймовірна, сповнена надії і хоробрості автобіографічна історія про боротьбу з шизофренією і віднайденням себе по цей бік реальності

одне з найсильніших читацьких переживань

[Ananana · Rating 5 out of 5]

The escape of Deborah's mind from her long conflict with schizophrenia was truly eye-opening and fascinating. The novel explores deep and harsh topics , detailing her constant warring mind with the defense mechanism kingdom in her head while facing the world again.

Favorite Quotes:
““I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice .. . and I never promised you peace or happiness.”“ I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie . . . and a bore, too!”

“Theres nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn’t do to me smarter and faster and better”

“the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, soul, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying”

[Sherry Dicer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book that many would probably find interesting and enlightening, but would be more enjoyable to those in the mental health field, especially those familiar with the mental institution world.

[fran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really heavy but absolutely fascinating. Strangely comforting.