Set in a psychiatric hospital in the 1980s, and interweaving fact with fiction, Labelled tells the very human story of how young Kat shunned university, opting instead to train as a psychiatric nurse. A jealous boyfriend, ‘time and a turd’, thirty sets of false teeth, the bullies, the friendships, the humour, the tragedies: It’s all here. Fascinating and thought provoking, Labelled is a book which will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page. I sincerely hope it will change the way those who live with mental illness are perceived.