Ladybird: My House Burnt Down, My Head is on Fire! - Softcover

Sakoschek, Janita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1415201331 ISBN 13: 9781415201336

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa, 2011

Synopsis

When quantity surveyor and builder Janita Sakoschek’s house burnt down a catastrophic breakdown followed. She lost everything: her paintings, her diaries and photographs, and ultimately, her sanity. Now she sits rooted to a borrowed sofa, chain-smoking, and blackly depressed. When she finally agrees to see a psychologist, she is institutionalized immediately. Episodes from her past and present life make it clear that this crash has been a long time coming. In Ladybird Janita poignantly records her riotous experiences with counselors and characters of all kinds: from psychiatric doctors and patients in Johannesburg to a retired legionnaire in France. We trace her deepening spirituality as she embarks on her most challenging construction job yet: rebuilding the walls of her collapsed life.

About this title

About the Author:

JANITA SAKOSCHEK was one of the first women in South Africa who studied quantity surveying. She has created a career out of building and development, working on an international scale. She is a competitive horse rider and lives in Johannesburg with her husband, two children, and a menagerie of animals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1415201331
• ISBN 13: 9781415201336
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304