John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Good piece by @annaleszkie.bsky.social in today’s Observer (and online soon, I presume) about Jennifer Dawson’s 1961 novel The Ha-Ha, about a young woman’s time in and out of a mental institution—and the latest Faber Editions reissue. 2183 18
anna leszkiewicz @annaleszkie.bsky.social · 28/07/2025thanks so much for sharing ! It is indeed online: observer.co.uk/culture/book...observer.co.ukJennifer Dawson’s lost chronicle of a crack-upThe Ha-Ha, a newly reissued 1961 novel about a young woman’s time in a mental hospital, is startlingly contemporary 021 2
John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Interesting also as there has been a run of reissues recently of older novels about women's experiences in mental institutions, from Tove Ditlevsen's The Faces (tr. Tiina Nunnally)... [my review👇]theguardian.comThe Faces by Tove Ditlevsen review – a tortured life turned into artA welcome, posthumous translation of a magnificent 1968 novel about the mental sufferings of a children’s author 121 2
