High on a Hill

About the Book

This deeply engrossing novel is a fictionalized account of the life struggles of patients and doctors inside a mental hospital. Inspired by the author’s own experience — Daniels was hospitalized in the 1950’s while suffering from anorexia nervosa — this book dares to expose the troubled lives of both the patients and their caretakers.

“In a novel of unusual scope...[Daniels] presents controversial themes with compassion and understanding.”

—Greensboro Daily News

About the Author

Lucy Daniels, writer and clinical psychologist based in Raleigh, North Carolina, received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1956 after the publication of Caleb, My Son, her first novel and best seller. After this second novel which appeared in 1961, she experienced writer’s block that only ended after years of psychoanalysis. Her memoir, With A Woman’s Voice, was published in 2001.