Annotation
"The novel traces the emotional breakdown - and then the restoration - of Eliza Peabody, a smart and wildly imaginative woman who has become unbearably isolated in her prosperous home in present-day South London. The letters Eliza writes to a neighbor - a neighbor whom she hardly knows - reveal the story of her self-propelled descent into madness. Eliza must reach the very bottom of this inner downward spiral before she can once again find health and serenity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Awards
1991 Costa Book Awards
Characters
| Name | Peabody, Eliza |
| Gender | Female |
| Trait | Mentally ill |
| Genre | Epistolary Sociological Psychological Fiction |
| Topics | Social isolation Mental illness Women |
| Setting | London, England Suburb |