'What if you could see the inner workings of a hospital psychiatry ward? In Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion’s latest joint novel, The Glass House, readers are taken into the acute psychiatry ward at Menzies Hospital and explore how psychiatrists deal with their patients and their own trauma. These mental health doctors are often seen as impervious, yet Buist and Simsion remind readers of psychiatrists’ fallibility and humanity.' (Introduction)
“If I’d wanted an image to sum up everything that’s disturbed me in my first three weeks of acute psychiatry at Menzies Hospital – and, in a strange way, what I’ve loved about it – I have it now.”