A Cruel Madness by Colin Thubron this book identified it as

this book identified it as an important factor in the exclusion of various ethnic and minority groups

In this disarmingly witty book

revealing how the biggest questions - from the size of the earth to the distance to the stars - are answerable from our own back gardens

plucked from youth and spirited away

A Cruel Madness by Colin Thubron this book identified it asWhen a part time worker in a mental hospital meets his old girlfriend inside he is not sure at first is she is a patient. Their reunion is haunted and haunting, and from the memory of their past affair there unfolds a labyrinth which darkens from romantic obsession to feelings deeper and more disturbing. Colin Thubron creates a world of passion, delusion, and reality mingling with unreality, pervaded by an all consuming sense of longing and of loss.