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I never promised you a rose garden

by Joanne Greenberg · 1964

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Popularity 70

Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.

Mental illness in fictionMentally illPsychotherapist and patient in fictionPsychotherapist and patientJuvenile fictionFictionMental illnessMental illness in literatureTeenage girls in fictionMentally ill in fictionTeenage girlsAdolescence, fiction