TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Antonia
TI  - Beyond the glass
SN  - 0860680975
PY  - 1979///
CY  - London
PB  - Virago
KW  - Women
KW  - History
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Mental disorders
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Biography
N1  - First published in 1954. Published by Virago Press in 1979 with an introduction by Carmen Callil
N2  - 

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to her parents home hoping for comfort. However, it is a Catholic home, and its confines form a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond yet when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair her fragile identity cracks.

An extraordinary, courageous portrayal of a woman's descent into madness, Beyond The Glass is a brilliant novel which completes Antonia White's wonderful Frost in May Quartet.

Antonia White was a patient at the Bethlem Royal Hospital for nine months in 1922-1923. Read this Bethlem Museum blog article: https://museumofthemind.org.uk/blog/in-the-spotlight-antonia-white
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