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Competition

All in the mind

6 May 2023

9:00 AM

6 May 2023

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3297, you were invited to provide a psychiatrist’s report on a well-known literary character.

The germ of this challenge was an interview with Olivia Colman, who played Miss Havisham in a recent adaptation of Great Expectations, in which the actress said of her character: ‘It’s terrible what happens to Miss Havisham… If only she’d had a therapist or a really good friend to chat to, she might be in a much better place.’

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