Publisher's Synopsis
"Soon after her marriage to Warren, Mom had a series of mental breakdowns. Warren later told me she exhibited paranoid tendencies on their honeymoon. She was finally diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and was hospitalized on and off for the rest of her life. When I was about fourteen I tried to reason with her. 'Mom, the voices you hear simply aren't real.' She smiled, shook her head and replied, 'Don't worry, darling, you may not hear them now but one day you will...' I am still waiting and listening." From ...a Bee in a Flower Garden Diana Bigelow lives with her husband Jim Stapleton in Bristol, VT, a village at the foot of the Green Mountains.