At 18, the author was thrilled to win an Open Scholarship to Girton College, Cambridge. If you look up the records of Girton College alumnae, you will not find Joanna, as this is a pen name. Joanna emerged from Cambridge with high hopes for a career. Her book is the story of her experience, following university, of the serious mental health condition, Bipolar Affective Disorder. Joanna Petersfield will keep the details of her life thereafter hidden for the moment, so as not to spoil her readers’ enjoyment of learning how she dealt with this seeming disaster!
Twenty-four-year-old Joanna’s life flipped upside down at the taking of a phone call. News of her sister’s near-death in a fire triggered the onset of bipolar disorder, a mental health condition that Joanna would have to manage for the rest of her life.A scholarship to Cambridge, with three year...
