The quickening maze /

Foulds, Adam, 1974-

The quickening maze / Adam Foulds. - 258 pages ; 20 cm

First published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2009.

Based on real events--tells the deeply moving story of the great nature poet John Clare and his fall into madness.

Finalist for the Man Booker Prize, 2009

0143117793 (pbk.) 9780143117797 (pbk.)


Clare, John, 1793-1864 --Mental health--Fiction.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 --Fiction.


Poets, English--Mental health--19th century--Fiction.
Psychiatric hospitals--History--England--London--19th century--Fiction.
Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--History--England--London--19th century--Fiction.


London (England)--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.




Historical fiction.--Reading book

823.92 / FOU