{"product_id":"last-asylum","title":"Last Asylum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Asylum\u003c\/i\u003e is Barbara Taylor''s haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England''s largest psychiatric institution: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis searingly honest, thought-provoking and beautifully written memoir is the story of the author''s madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century. It is a meditation on her own experience of breakdown and healing, but also that of the millions of other people who have suffered, are suffering, will suffer mental illness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Personal story, psychoanalytic process, the experience of madness, the feel of being an inpatient in the last days of Friern, the history of the asylum . . . A beautiful memoir, engrossing'' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Moving, brave and intelligent'' Susan Hill, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Dazzling. A great achievement, full of life and hope'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Taylor''s previous books include an award-winning study of nineteenth-century socialist feminism, \u003ci\u003eEve and the New Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e; an intellectual biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; and \u003ci\u003eOn Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e, a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal, \u003ci\u003eHistory Workshop Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches History and English at Queen Mary University of London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57505934999934,"sku":"NW9780241951828","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241951828.jpg?v=1780489193","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/last-asylum","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}