Poppy Shakespeare is a 2006 novel by Clare Allan, later adapted into a 2008 Channel 4 film. Set in North London's fictional Dorothy Fish Day Hospital, the story follows two women: "N," a long-term patient who fears discharge, and Poppy Shakespeare, a new arrival adamant she's not mentally ill. Following her mother's suicide, N has been in and out of care most of her life, from foster care, through 'children looked after' services to mental health inpatient and outpatient services. Resolutely determined to remain an outpatient at a mental health day centre, her day-to-day existence is challenged by a new patient, Poppy Shakespeare... whilst all other outpatients are hell-bent on avoiding discharge, Poppy wants nothing else.