The Quickening Maze

Adam Foulds

Original title: The quickening maze

earliest edition we have, 2009 Random House Publishing Group, 2009 ebook

Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, The Quickening Maze centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Private Asylum - an institution run on reformist principles which would later become known as occupational therapy. At the same time another poet, the...

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Editions we hold

The quickening maze edition · 2010 · Penguin Books · 258 pages · 9780143117797
The quickening maze edition · 2010 · Windsor/Paragon, BBC Audio · 249 pages · 9781408461228
The Quickening Maze paperback · 2009 · Vintage Canada · 272 pages · 9780307399106
The Quickening Maze ebook · 2009 · Random House Publishing Group · 9781409077183
The quickening maze edition · 2009 · Jonathan Cape · 258 pages · 9780224087469

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