The Glass House

Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright a country girl with a chaotic history thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital. Amongst unrelenting hours hospital politics fraught relationships and new friendships Hannah must learn on the job in a strained medical system navigating the conflicting practice of her boss Nash who puts his faith in pharmaceuticals; and his boss Professor Gordon who takes the Freudian line. Hannah and her fellow trainees are dealing with the common and the bizarre the hilarious and the tragic the treatable and the confronting. Every day brings new patients: Chloe who has life-threatening anorexia nervosa; Sian suffering postpartum psychosis and fighting to keep her baby; and Xavier the MP whose suicide attempt has an explosive story behind it. All the while Hannah is trying to figure out herself.