In Zodiac Light

Robert Edric

RRP: £7.99

Publisher: BLACK SWAN

Publication Date : 16/07/2009

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Still feeling the aftereffects of WWI, Ivor Gurney is abandoned by the military and his family and is sent to a mental hospital, where he descends into madness and oblivion. His experiences on the Western Front threaten to send him over the edge, but it is the attitudes of other people that send him to the edge of sanity.

Publisher's description:

Ex-soldier, poet and composer Ivor Gurney, suffering from increasingly frequent and deepening bouts of paranoid schizophrenia, is transferred to the City of London Mental Hospital, Dartford. Neglected by the military and by his own family, Gurney begins a descent into the madness and oblivion which he believes has long been waiting to claim him.

ISBN: 9780552774185