Author Joanna Cannon: why I’m going back to the psychiatric wards

Joanna Cannon: she started writing while working as a junior doctor ‘for therapy’.Joanna Cannon’s to-do list for next month includes attending the British Book Industry Awards in which her bestselling debut novel has been shortlisted, and pouring tea for people with dementia and their carers in a village hall.Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, who quit psychiatry more than two years ago to concentrate on writing, is returning to the NHS as a volunteer with Arts