Written in English
Booker 2009 · Shortlist
The Quickening Maze
The Quickening Maze
Adam Foulds · 35 when first published
Novel · 258 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1837 the poet John Clare, worn down by drink and depression, is a patient at High Beach, an asylum in Epping Forest, when the young Alfred Tennyson moves nearby so that his brother can be treated there.