Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness

Awards:   Commended for Human Rights Commission’s Non-Fiction Award 2010 (Australia) Short-listed for The Age Book of the Year 2010 (Australia) Winner of SANE Book of the Year 2010 (Australia)
Author:   Sandy Jeffs
Publisher:   Spinifex Press
Edition:   2nd edition
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9781925950946


Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 March 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Commended for Human Rights Commission’s Non-Fiction Award 2010 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for The Age Book of the Year 2010 (Australia)
  • Winner of SANE Book of the Year 2010 (Australia)

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Author:   Sandy Jeffs
Publisher:   Spinifex Press
Imprint:   Spinifex Press
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781925950946


ISBN 10:   1925950948
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 March 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Andrew Denton Preface to the 2024 Edition Preface to the 2009 Edition Part One Childhood, Girlhood, Youth 1953–1971 Part Two Student Days 1972–1975 Part Three Bats in the Belfry 1976–1993 Part Four Into the Sunset 1993–2004 Part Five Billowing Psychotic Fantasia May 2005 Afterword Homecoming Acknowledgements References

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Read this exceptional book. It takes you beyond your own narrow terror towards something that might be called insight. —Helen Elliott, The Age (on the first edition)


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Sandy Jeffs OAM was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976 a time when recovery was seen as unlikely. She was in and out of institutional care for 15 years and has been an advocate for people with mental illness for many years. She is a prize-winning poet and the author of 8 collections including the bestselling collection, Poems from the Madhouse, Blood Relations The Wings of Angels: A Memoir of Madness, The Mad Poet's Tea Party and The Poetics of a Plague. Her non-fiction includes prize-winning books the memoir, Flying with Paper Wings and Out of the Madhouse (with Margaret Leggatt). Sandy Jeffs OAM was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976 a time when recovery was seen as unlikely. She was in and out of institutional care for 15 years and has been an advocate for people with mental illness for many years. She is a prize-winning poet and the author of 8 collections including the bestselling collection, Poems from the Madhouse, Blood Relations The Wings of Angels: A Memoir of Madness, The Mad Poet's Tea Party and The Poetics of a Plague. Her non-fiction includes prize-winning books the memoir, Flying with Paper Wings and Out of the Madhouse (with Margaret Leggatt).

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