Forbidden Notebook centers the inner life of a dissatisfied housewife living in postwar Rome
and the societal pressures that place them in opposition
the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household collapses
Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso
When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together
The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson vintage Forbidden Notebook centers the innerA prizewinning, semi autobiographical debut novel that explores a young womans struggle with mental illness at Oxford University in the 1950sfor readers of Ottessa Moshfegh, Melissa Broder, and Sally Rooney. At a tea party at Oxford University in the 1950s, earnest undergraduates in floral dresses clink cups, discussing their studies, sports, and summer balls. But to one student, Josephine,they are grotesquely transformed: she is sitting among ominous