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Inferno
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Catherine Cho
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
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.
Critic reviews
"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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- Amazon Customer
- 07-06-23
An insight into post partum psychosis
My heart breaks for anyone suffering a psychotic episode. The descriptions of it in this book show exactly what a nightmare it is. A very important book. I wish the author well for the future.
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- Jennie Godfrey
- 27-08-21
Powerful, brilliantly written memoir
I burned through this in 24 hours, I couldn’t stop listening. The prose, the narration, the subject all made for a compelling listen. Can’t rave about it enough
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- Anonymous User
- 07-07-21
Immersive and intense story
Catherine’s performance was compelling and immersive. I marvelled at her story, her candour, and the intertwining cultural education of traditional Korean fairytales.
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- Callum Kruse
- 24-01-22
please read
amazing. perfect. moving.
hope it is translated into my mother tongue so my family can read this important book.
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- donna coleman
- 20-01-24
an interesting and honest insight
a genre I don't normally turn to but this was an interesting account which felt brutally honest although the book was somewhat overly long
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