Poppy Shakespeare is a 2006 British novel and 2008 Channel 4 film about mental illness by Clare Allan.

Poppy arrives at the hospital strongly asserting that she is sane and demanding to be released from the programme.

The book was adapted by Sarah Williams[1] and Cowboy Films to a 90-minute drama directed by Benjamin Ross and shown on Channel 4 on 31 March 2008 and starred Anna Maxwell Martin as N and Naomie Harris as Poppy.

[6] Michel Faber's review in The Guardian identifies the novel as "distinctive and powerful debut, full of brave experiments that generate unexpectedly fierce emotional heat.

In a literary scene whose established stars milk tragedies such as the Holocaust or 9/11 for precious little reason beyond their own artistic vanity, Allan has given us something indigestibly, potently true.