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The Quickening Maze

Adam Foulds

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Centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Private Asylum - an institution run on reformist principles which would later become known as occupational therapy. At the same time another poet, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and becomes entangled in the life and catastrophic schemes of the asylum's owner, the peculiar, charismatic Dr Matthew Allen. For John Clare, a man who had grown up steeped in the freedoms and exhilarations of nature, who thought 'the edge of the world was a day's walk away', a locked door is a kind of death.

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Year
2009
ISBN-13
9780224087469
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Mental illness and asylumsPoetry and creativityHistorical figures reimagined

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