The HaHa edition by Jennifer Dawson John Sutherland Literature Fiction eBooks
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Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
‘A very fine first novel. Dawson writes very well, with a tender awareness of the ironies of her theme and a poetic perception of how tremulous is the distinction between the mad world and the sane.’ - Glasgow Herald
‘A remarkably talented first novel ... Miss Dawson is neither sentimental nor sensational ... Her heroine is a convincing and sympathetic character, and when her mind begins to shift into the nightmare perspective of schizophrenia the writing creates an atmosphere of quiet terror.’ - Observer
‘Cool, short, tender and occasionally as prettily ruthless as the impact of a stiletto heel . . . twice as alarming because everything is implied rather than explicit.’ - Tatler
‘A cool, clever, well-constructed novel about – smoothly speaking – the nature of reality. . . . Miss Dawson writes very well indeed, with remarkable calmness and detachment . . . [B]rilliant.’ - Penelope Mortimer, Sunday Times
‘A little masterpiece.’ - Bookman
‘A novel about madness which succeeds completely.’ - Daily Telegraph
‘I wanted the knack of existing. I did not know the rules.’ So says Josephine, the heroine of Jennifer Dawson’s remarkable novel, an exploration of a young woman’s mental illness that met with universal critical acclaim and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize as the best novel of the year. After suffering a breakdown following the death of her mother, Josephine finds herself confined to an institution where patients are ‘treated’ by such means as electroshock therapy and lobotomies. But when she falls in love with Alasdair, a fellow patient she meets on the grassy bank of the ha-ha, she decides that her recovery will be on her own defiant terms. Inspired by the author’s personal experiences, The Ha-Ha (1961) remains a moving and powerful examination of mental illness and the treatment of those who suffer from it. This new edition includes an afterword by the author and an introduction by John Sutherland.
The HaHa edition by Jennifer Dawson John Sutherland Literature Fiction eBooks
I thought this book would describe the characters' mental illness more. I read it all at once hoping that I would get to a really good part but I didn't.Product details
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The HaHa edition by Jennifer Dawson John Sutherland Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I have re-read this novel which I can see I bought back in 1964.
The story is told by a young woman called Josephine who is incarcerated in a mental hospital. We're not informed exactly how she ended there but she had has some sort of psychological crisis following the death of her mother.
Josephine had been a student at Oxford, is apparently exceedingly clever and specialized in Anglo-Saxon.
We are introduced to her on her first day in a new ward. A kindly and motherly German sister attends to her and talks with her. Josephine is to be “re-graded” and returned to the “real world”.
Josephine had been alone with her mother and Mother had called her “her giggly girl”, The two were “good friends”, went to the theatre together and shopped together. Mother was the one organizing these activities; Jo felt she did not have the “knack of existing” – she did not know the rules of life.
At the hospital Jo becomes friendly with another patient Alasdair whom she often meets at the ha-ha. Before reading this book I didn't know what a ha-ha was but found out in Wikipedia it was “a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond” (whatever that means!).
Alasdair talks about the “schizies” he has encountered in the hospital, and Jo understands that she may be one of them.
The book is well-written and Jo's state of mind is described very subtly. She wondered “what words were 'the words', the things that carried, the words that counted, and qualified you for the world of other people.”
Jo feels a strange lightness as though she did not really exist. “There was nothing, nothing to tell me that I existed.”
She becomes involved with Alisdair and he tells her that she is the first person he has met who does not play a game with herself and with other people, She is real, she is serious.
It is because she is real that “society” doesn't appeal to her much.
Jo undergoes a process of development and realizes she wants to live, and to feel, She was born for joy.
Alasdair leaves the hospital suddenly without saying good-bye, which is upsetting to Jo.
Jo asks the doctor about the outcome of schizophrenia. He answers, “if you stabilize by the time you are thirty …”.
I found the book to be insightful and Jo's state of mind and experiences sublimely delineated. I highly recommend the book.
I liked the book, but it was a but difficult reading. I was happy to have finished the book
I thought this book would describe the characters' mental illness more. I read it all at once hoping that I would get to a really good part but I didn't.
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