Poppy Shakespeare - the telly film based on the novel - was on Channel 4 last night.
Really liked it. Haven't read the novel. Might do now.
Sort of a "mental health" Trainspotting.
Couldn't always hear what the character N was saying.
On the whole I thought it was excellent.
The character Poppy Shakespeare, who enters the hospital a healthy and "normal" person, is destroyed by the mental health system.
It also showed the absurdity of the concept of "mental illness" or "insanity" or "madness", as well as the absurdities of the system and the way that it is an industry, a sub-culture and a for some a way of life.
And the way that is now being cut back to the bone.