Miranda Sawyer

But it's like it's by this woman called Susanna Kaysen.

And it's a memoir of a two year stay at a kind of psychiatric hospital.

But it's in the 60s.

So it's not happening now.

And what happened, what used to happen pre-Wurzel, I would say, is that people would, well, women maybe, would write about these kind of things, but fictionalised or after the fact.

Exactly, exactly.

And that bit about the drugs.

So she writes a really good thing that I want to come to at the end, which is almost like a magazine article, an epilogue about Prozac.

But there's a bit in, she's at Harvard.

I should kind of continue.

So basically she's,

She is self-harming, having a tough time when she's a teenager, but she is still incredibly clever and she gets to Harvard.

And when she gets to Harvard, she is, obviously there's a lot of people at Harvard, as there always is at snooty universities who've got a lot of money and kind of basically have gotten through a lot of money.

So you always, if you're the kind of bright kid that was on a scholarship to school, which she was, you're always going to feel a bit less than these people.

And anyway, she has what we might call in inverted commas a good time.

But, you know, basically she just gets trashed.

But there's a really interesting bit where she's taking a lot of ecstasy.

And it's so weird.

She goes, yeah, high on ec, which to me is really weird because we called it E, obviously.

And then eventually they call it X.