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9781408461228

The Quickening Maze

The Quickening Maze

by Adam Foulds

Publisher Jonathan Cape

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After a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated. The asylum, in London's Epping Forest, is run on the reformist principles of occupational therapy. At the same time, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and became entangled in the life of the asylum. This historically accurate, intensely lyrical novel, describes the asylum's closed world and Nature's paradise outside the walls: Clare's dream of home, of redemption, of escape.

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About the Author

Adam Foulds

Adam Foulds is a poet and novelist. He was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013 and the Poetry Society’s Next Generation Poets in 2014.


He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. His most recent novel, Dream Sequence, was published in 2019.

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