Written in English
Booker 2012 · Shortlist
Umbrella
Umbrella
Will Self · 51 when first published
Novel · Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1971 the psychiatrist Zachary Busner, new to a mental hospital in north London, becomes fascinated by Audrey, a patient struck down by sleeping sickness in 1918 who has spent half a century in a near-catatonic state.