More or Less Maddy

Lisa Genova

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Allen & Unwin
14 January 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out student at NYU. Between exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it's normal to feel overwhelmed. It doesn't help that she's always been the odd one out in her picture-perfect Connecticut family. But Maddy's latest low is devastatingly low, and she goes on antidepressants. She begins to feel good, dazzling in fact, and she soon spirals into a wild and terrifying mania that culminates in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

As she struggles to find her way in this new reality, navigating the complex effects bipolar has on her identity, her relationships, and her life dreams, Maddy will have to figure out how to manage being both too much and not enough.

With her signature 'deep empathy and insight' (Booklist), Harvard-trained neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova has crafted another profoundly moving novel that makes complicated mental health issues accessible and human. More or Less Maddy is destined to become another classic.

'Genova writes with deeply informed empathy.' The Sydney Morning Herald

By: Lisa Genova
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 392g
ISBN: 9781761472466
ISBN 10: 1761472461
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 14 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lisa Genova is an American neuroscientist and author. She graduated as valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and has a PhD in Neuroscience from Harvard University. Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa has captured a special place in contemporary fiction, writing stories that are equally inspired by neuroscience and the human spirit. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O'Briens and Every Note Played. Her first work of non-fiction, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting (Allen & Unwin/Atlantic), was an instant NYT bestseller upon publication in 2021. Film adaptations for Inside the O'Briens, Every Note Played and Left Neglected are currently in development.