Books
by Adam Foulds
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The Quickening Maze |
A private mental asylum in Epping Forest, the director enlightened Matthew Allen, among the inmates: poet John Clare and Alfred Tennyson's brother Charles. So much is history, as is the Tennyson brothers' doomed investment in Allen's wood-carving invention. Foulds's recreation of this world is enchanting, both in his imagined characters and his descriptive language. Clare escaping to spend the night with the gypsies, Allen's daughter Hannah setting her cap at Tennyson . . . utterly captivating!
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 77 Summer 2015) |
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