Poppy Shakespeare
literary work· published 2006
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Poppy Shakespeare is a 2006 British novel and 2008 Channel 4 film about mental illness by Clare Allan. It tells the story of day patients at a mental health hospital. The central characters are Poppy Shakespeare, a new patient, and "N", a long-term patient. Poppy arrives at the hospital strongly asserting that she is sane and demanding to be released from the programme. To gain legal aid she must first prove she is sick so that she can get "MAD money", a.k.a. state benefits. She is befriended by N, who helps her work the system.
Adaptations (1)
Poppy Shakespeare was adapted into a 2008 television film.
Poppy Shakespeare2008 · television film · 90 min · dir. Benjamin Ross · IMDb ↗IMDb7.2N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
