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Inferno

By: Catherine Cho
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Bloomsbury presents Inferno by Catherine Cho, read by Catherine Cho.

My psychosis, for all its destruction and wrath, was a love story.

When Catherine left London for the US with her husband, James, to introduce her family to their newborn son, she could not have envisaged how that trip would end. Catherine would find herself in an involuntary psych ward in New Jersey, separated from her husband and child, unable to understand who she was and how she had got there. 

It’s difficult to know where the story of psychosis begins. Was it the moment I met my son? Or was it decided in the before, something rooted deeper in my fate, generations ago?

In an attempt to hold on to her sense of self, Catherine had to reconstruct her life, from her early childhood to a harrowing previous relationship and her eventual marriage to James. 

The result is a 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.
©2020 Catherine Cho (P)2020 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Biographies & Memoirs Mental Health Psychology Relationships Motherhood
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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)

"Completely devastating. Completely heartbreaking. Written in luminous, spiralling prose."(Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under)

"Crystalline.... A brave, brilliant exploration of madness and motherhood." (Harper's Bazaar, 10 women who will shape what you watch, see and read in 2020)

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This book blew my mind. I have never read an account of a fellow post partum psychosis survivor, and I highly doubt I will ever find one that can top this. The imagery and specificity of the psychosis web was hypnotic and I couldn't bear to pause the book. My only issue with it was how long I left it in my wishlist, I wish I had read it sooner. Thoroughly recommend.

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