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Title: Quickening Maze: A Novel
Author: Adam Foulds
Narrator: Graeme Malcolm
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:38:19
Language: English
Release date: 11-05-2010
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction
Summary:
Based on real events, The Quickening Maze won over UK critics and readers alike with its rapturous prose and vivid exploration of poetry and madness. In 1837, after years of struggling with alcoholism and depression, the great nature poet John Clare finds himself in High Beach-a mental institution located in Epping Forest on the outskirts of London. It is not long before another famed writer, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and grows entwined in the catastrophic schemes of the hospital's owner, the peculiar Dr. Matthew Allen, his lonely adolescent daughter, and a coterie of mysterious local characters. With lyrical grace, the cloistered world of High Beach and its residents are brought richly to life in this enchanting book. 'Exceptional . earthy and true, but shifting, metamorphic-the word-perfect fruit of a poet's sharp eye and novelist's limber reach.'-Times (London)
