I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Author: Hannah Green
A girl of sixteen trapped in the tormenting world of madness…, , It was a nightmare made real when Deborah’s parents discovered their teenage daughter staring at the bloody gashes she had made in her own wrists., , Deborah was a schizophrenic, doomed to the white world of the mental ward, confronted by the long dark journey back from madness to reality…….Read More
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