In zodiac light
By: Robert Edric
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780753182444; 9780753182451
Subjects: Fiction; World War, 1914-1918; Veterans; Composers; Paranoid schizophrenics; War neuroses; Psychiatric hospital patients
Description: It is December 1922 and the aftershocks of the First World War continue to make themselves felt. Ex-soldier, poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, suffering from increasingly frequent and deepening bouts of paranoid schizophrenia is transferred to the City of London Mental Hospital, Dartford. Neglected by the military and by his own family, and abandoned by all but a notable handful of his friends, Gurney begins a descent into the madness and oblivion which he believes has long been waiting to claim him. Yet following his arrival at Dartford, there are still those who continue to believe in Gurney's capabilities.
Notes: Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2008.