Inferno
- Author Catherine Cho
- Narrator Catherine Cho
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Run Time 6 hours and 30 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Coping with mental health issues, Family and health, Memoirs, Pregnancy, birth and baby care: advice and issues, Women’s health.
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What to expect
'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 -
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 -
A brilliantly frightening memoir about Cho’s two weeks on the psychiatric ward, elegantly interwoven with tales from her past
Guardian -
Feels like an important piece of reportage about the condition as well as a gripping personal story
Spectator, Books of the Year -
A courageous and powerful book
Times Literary Supplement -
In honest and intricate detail, Inferno traverses between past traumas and present-day experiences
Evening Standard
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