A celebration of the life and work of the British writer Jennifer Dawson
"Do you think I care whether the doctors and the hospital board decide I am sane or insane? I don't care tuppence about nice quiet friends. Mine is not going to be that kind of existence. I want to live, to feel. I was born for something more than mere sanity. I was born for so much joy. A great possibility of joy. More than you could ever imagine." - From 'The Ha-Ha'.
Jennifer Dawson's debut novel
'The Ha-Ha', won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize when it was first published in 1961. The novel is now available again in a paperback edition and as an ebook published by Valancourt Books.
This edition includes an afterword by the author and an introduction by Professor John Sutherland.
Jennifer Dawson
Photograph by Cynthia Bradford