Journal Entry 1 by cyber-librarian from Cary, North Carolina USA on Sunday, August 17, 2003

I bought this book yesterday at McHenry, IL ... Friends of the Library book sale for 50 cents.

c. 1964
Inside page: The story of a 16-year-old girl wo retreats from reality into the bondage of an imaginary kingdom. It is a beautifully written novel that tells of her momentous struggle, aided by a brilliant psychiatrist, to regain the real world. It is an eloquent novel about mental illness, one that makes a poignant plea for compassion and understanding.

Back Cover: Seldom has the strange and seductive world of insanity been charted more explicitly, or more beautifully, than in this novel -- this shining story of a young girl's 3 years in a mental hospital and her journey back from madness to reality.