Books by Adam Foulds
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review 1: Amazing novel about the several characters living at the madman's institute directed by Dr Allen: the doctor and his family, wife, daughters and son, several patients among who the poets John Clare and Alfred Tennyson. Remarkably clear style if writing, which requires the reader ...
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review 1: Perhaps 3 1/2 stars. A thoughtful imagining of a strange historical episode, when the peasant poet John Clare was confined in a somewhat enlightened mental hospital, at the same time the Alfred Tennyson was seeing to his melancholic brother's stay there too, and the hospital hea...
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review 1: I met Adam Foulds recently at an arts festival in Kuala Lumpur and was lucky enough to do a workshop with him on creating character. I felt a bit ashamed of myself that I hadn't read this book already (especially as I usually read the Booker shortlist, especially as he agreed to ...