title: Private Worlds (Bottome novel)
text: # Private Worlds (Bottome novel)
  
  Private Worlds is a 1934 novel by the British writer Phyllis Bottome. It is set in a psychiatric hospital. It was the seventh most popular work of fiction published in America that year.
  
  ## Adaptation
  
  It was adapted into a 1935 American film of the same title directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer and Joel McCrea.
  
  