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Inferno
- Author
- Catherine Cho
- Narrator
- Catherine Cho
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 19 March 2020
- Run Time
- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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'A beautifully written account of postpartum psychosis, and the ties, blessings and burdens of family' – NIGELLA LAWSON
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE
*Observer Book of the Week*
*A Guardian Memoir of the Year 2020*
*Harper’s Bazaar 10 Women Who Will Shape What You Watch, See and Read in 2020*
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‘Striking and original' – Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times
'Completely devastating. Completely heartbreaking' – Daisy Johnson
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Catherine Cho's son was three months old when she and her husband left home to introduce him to their families.
Catherine herself could never have envisaged how the trip would end for her – surfacing in an involuntary psychiatric ward, separated from her husband and child, unable to understand who she was, or remember how she got there.
In her two weeks on the ward, Catherine turned to her notebook to reconstruct who she was, piece by piece, from the fragments of her life as they drifted back to her. The result is this powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience – of how we love, live and understand ourselves in relation to each other.
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'A haunting, eloquent evocation of becoming a stranger to yourself' Observer
Critics Review
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This striking story of motherhood and psychosis grips ... A highly accomplished memoir. Cho deftly weaves the strands of her experience to create something striking and original
The Times
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Veers away from being a heart-warming tale of triumph over trauma; it lays out, with frightening clarity, the spiralling pressures of new motherhood and the unvarnished reality of mental breakdown
Guardian, Best Autobiography and Memoir of 2020
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A brilliantly frightening memoir about Cho’s two weeks on the psychiatric ward, elegantly interwoven with tales from her past
Guardian
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Feels like an important piece of reportage about the condition as well as a gripping personal story
Spectator, Books of the Year
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A courageous and powerful book
Times Literary Supplement
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In honest and intricate detail, Inferno traverses between past traumas and present-day experiences
Evening Standard
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Utterly brilliant: poetic, truthful, frightening, clever. I held my breath at both the power of the prose and the writer’s unflinching honesty
Christie Watson, author of The Language of Kindness
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A viscerally raw and startlingly honest account of the author’s journey into motherhood. A must-read for those looking to understand one of the darkest corners of the female experience
Leah Hazard, author of Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story
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A powerful and poignant book. The difficult and haunting brutality of both psychosis and relationships was so beautifully and honestly portrayed
Bev Thomas, author of A Good Enough Mother
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‘Triumphant’
Cosmopolitan
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‘Insightful and shocking’
Stylist
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Completely devastating. Completely heartbreaking. Written in luminous, spiralling prose
Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under
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A fierce, brave, glittering book that charts with unflinching honesty the shift from one reality to another and the family ghosts that – without always knowing it – we all carry
Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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Compelling and exquisitely written. Catherine Cho’s eye-opening memoir took me into a world I knew nothing about. She communicates her experience with such startling clarity, I felt I was right there with her. Exceptional
Ruth Jones
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Utterly compelling and beautifully written, Inferno is one of the bravest and most beautiful books I have ever read
Alice Feeney
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Inferno does just as the title suggests, it throws you into the flames of the author's psychosis so that you are in there with her, fighting for your next breath. I've rarely read such a powerful account of madness. Gripping, chilling and ultimately hopeful, this is one not to miss
Lisa Jewell
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I was hooked from the very start ... It is at heart a love story, but one in which unimaginable, wonderfully depicted, mental torture intrudes. In sharing this pain, and exploring its cultural and other causes, Catherine Cho does a great service to the cause of breaking down stigma surrounding mental ill health ... A beautiful book
Alastair Campbell
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Details
- Author
- Catherine Cho
- Narrator
- Catherine Cho
- Duration
- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 March 2020
- ISBN
- 9781526619235
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Memoirs, Pregnancy, birth and baby care: advice, topics and issues, Women’s health, Coping with / advice about mental health issues or topics
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Inferno written and read by Catherine Cho.______________________'A beautifully written account of postpartum psychosis, and the ties, blessings and burdens of family' – NIGELLA LAWSONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE*Observer Book of the Week**A Guardian Memoir of the Year 2020**Harper’s Bazaar 10 Women Who Will Shape What You Watch, See and Read in 2020*______________________‘Striking and original' – Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times'Completely devastating. Completely heartbreaking' – Daisy Johnson______________________Catherine Cho's son was three months old when she and her husband left home to introduce him to their families.Catherine herself could never have envisaged how the trip would end for her – surfacing in an involuntary psychiatric ward, separated from her husband and child, unable to understand who she was, or remember how she got there.In her two weeks on the ward, Catherine turned to her notebook to reconstruct who she was, piece by piece, from the fragments of her life as they drifted back to her. The result is this powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience – of how we love, live and understand ourselves in relation to each other.______________________'A haunting, eloquent evocation of becoming a stranger to yourself' Observer
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