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The Oasis - (Menzies Mental Health) by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist (Paperback)

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  • By the bestselling authors of The Glass House, Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, comes the second novel in the groundbreaking Menzies Mental Health series Trainee psychiatrist DoctorHannah Wright has only just got her head above water in the acute psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital when she's thrown into the deep end of the outpatient clinic.
  • About the Author: Anne Buist (Author) Professor Anne Buist is chair of Women's Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and the architect of the national screening program for perinatal depression.
  • 368 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Medical
  • Series Name: Menzies Mental Health

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By the bestselling authors of The Glass House, Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, comes the second novel in the groundbreaking Menzies Mental Health series

Trainee psychiatrist DoctorHannah Wright has only just got her head above water in the acute psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital when she's thrown into the deep end of the outpatient clinic. Keen to develop her skills in talking therapies, she finds herself up against a boss who's focused on medication and a senior colleague with a score to settle.

Hannah's fellow first-years face problems of their own: on-and-off flame Alex is being bullied, Ndidi's marriage is in trouble, Jon feels isolated and Carey is concerned their autism will be a career barrier.

While Hannah comes under pressure to seek therapy herself to confront a traumatic past, her patients' health issues range from OCD to ice addiction, childhood abuse to the mental impact of ageing, and from bad parenting to bad genes. They all come to the Oasis.

Written with great humanity and humour, Australian psychiatrist Anne Buist and internationally bestselling author Graeme Simsion (The Rosie Project) welcome us into the world of mental health with compassion and insight.

Praise for The Oasis

'Anne Buist comes to this with real insight and wisdom'THE AUSTRALIAN

'The novel poses big questions about the practice of psychiatry itself, but it's written with a healthy dose of comedy and melodrama, an inside eye on the experience of young doctors, and a compassionate lightness of touch'THE AGE

'Eye-opening and absorbing, with a huge nod to the authors' prowess and empathy in the mental health sphere' HOBART MERCURY

'An engrossing read'GOOD READING MAGAZINE

'A grounded indictment of the mental health service in Australia'THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY

Praise for The Glass House, book one in the Menzies Mental Health series

'A masterfully told, character-driven novel that will have you laughing and crying in equal measures'THE AUSTRALIAN

'A deeply empathetic, humanising portrait of a mental health facility, and the souls that pass through it' THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY

'Stunning . . . So timely'DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Absorbing'INSTYLE AUSTRALIA

'A darn good read' LIVING ARTS CANBERRA

'Brings alive the frontline of mental health care' PROFESSOR PATRICK MCGORRY AO, AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR 2010

'Overflows with compassion, insight and humour' MEREDITH JAFFÉ

'Gripping, rich and insightful'
ARIANE BEESTON, author of Because I'm Not Myself, You See

'Anne Buist skilfully writes from her own experiences and co-author Graeme Simsion adds his inimitable Rosie Project style. An honest, sensitive look into mental health care in Australia' PROFESSOR JAYASHRI KULKARNI AM, Psychiatrist, Monash University



About the Author



Anne Buist (Author)
Professor Anne Buist is chair of Women's Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and the architect of the national screening program for perinatal depression. She began writing at eight but medicine intervened until 2015 when she wrote Medea's Curse, the first of five psychological crime novels. The internationally bestselling Two Steps Forward, co-authored with her husband, Graeme Simsion, was optioned to Fox Searchlight / Disney, along with its sequel, Two Steps Onward. She is co-author of the Menzies Mental Health series with Graeme.

Graeme Simsion (Author)
Dr Graeme Simsion is the author of the widely acclaimed novel The Rosie Project, which spent 65 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and, with its two sequels, has sold seven million copies in forty languages. A film is in development with Sony Pictures. The Best of Adam Sharp, also an international bestseller, is in development with New Sparta Pictures and Creative Differences was optioned to Truce Films. Graeme is co-author of the bestselling Menzies Mental Health series with his wife, Anne Buist.

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 368
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Medical
Series Title: Menzies Mental Health
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Format: Paperback
Author: Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist
Language: English
Street Date: September 23, 2025
TCIN: 94501328
UPC: 9780733651502
Item Number (DPCI): 247-34-6203
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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