Isobel on the way to the corner shop

"With no food left in her rooming-house attic, Isobel Callaghan sets out to buy provisions from the corner shop. On the way she collapses and wakes up in hospital. She's moved to a tuberculosis sanatorium, where the god-like doctors and an assorted, less than compatible, cast of patients help Isobel to gain hard insights about herself and about human nature, on the slow path to recuperation."@en
"Isobel Callaghan is struggling to make a career as a writer in Sydney. She is isolated, poor and hungry, and fears she's going mad. Leaving her room in a boarding house in search of food, she has a breakdown on the way to the corner shop. Waking in hospital, Isobel learns that she will be confined to a sanatorium in the Blue Mountains. There, among the motley assortment of patients, and with the aid of great works of literature, she will confront the horrors of her past. But can she find a way to face the future? Confronting and compassionate, profound and funny, the second Isobel Callaghan."
"Isobel finds herself in a tuberculosis sanatorium - During her prolonged recuperation she gains insights about herself and about human nature."