I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

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The ground-breaking cult classic about a young woman's battle with schizophrenia 
With a Foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang and an Afterword by the author 
 
'She fought them with her head and her teeth while the restraints were being tied, trying, doglike, to bite herself' 
 
Sixteen-year-old Deborah's identity is shattering, as she retreats further and further from the 'normal' world into her imaginary kingdom of Yr, a fantastical inner refuge both lush and horrifying. Sent to a psychiatric hospital, she must, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, try to find a way back. Joanne Greenberg's fictionalized autobiography became a global bestseller on publication in 1964, and remains a wrenching account of mental illness. 
 
'A rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind' Chicago Tribune 
 
'Marvellous ... a courage that is sometimes breathtaking' The New York Times Book Review

Marvelous... With a courage that is sometimes breathtaking... (Greenberg) makes a faultless series of discriminations between the justifications for living in an evil and complex reality and the justifications for retreating into the security of madness

A rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind

Joanne Greenberg is the author of nineteen books, including I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1963 for her novel The King's Persons. Her novel In This Sign was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie called Love Is Never Silent. Greenberg was a volunteer firefighter and paramedic for thirteen years.

With a Foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang and an Afterword by the author 
 
'She fought them with her head and her teeth while the restraints were being tied, trying, doglike, to bite herself' 
 
Sixteen-year-old Deborah's identity is shattering, as she retreats further and further from the 'normal' world into her imaginary kingdom of Yr, a fantastical inner refuge both lush and horrifying. Sent to a psychiatric hospital, she must, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, try to find a way back. Joanne Greenberg's fictionalized autobiography became a global bestseller on publication in 1964, and remains a wrenching account of mental illness. 
 
'A rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind' Chicago Tribune 
 
'Marvellous ... a courage that is sometimes breathtaking' The New York Times Book Review

Joanne Greenberg

Two young deaf people, Abel and Janice, leave their punitive school and begin their life as a married couple &lsquo;Outside&rsquo; &ndash; in the unwelcoming world of the hearing. A misunderstanding about the payment plan on a car kickstarts years of debt, hard labour and ostracization; but they find solace and expression in the richness of Sign, in their hard-won independence and in the birth of their daughter Margaret. 
 
First published in 1970, only a decade after ASL&rsquo;s formal recognition as a language, In This Sign is a rare, compassionate portrait of the deaf community and a moving family saga that spans the twentieth century. 
 
With an introduction by Sara Novic and a new afterword by the author.

Joanne Greenberg

Books by Joanne Greenberg

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