Penguin
9780143117797
Penguin
9780143117797
Adam Foulds’ second novel is well named. The Quickening Maze is set mostly in an early Victorian English asylum, a place whose residents’ lives are mazelike in their complexity, even those who are free to leave.
John Clare, a poet destined for a fair-to-middling place in the English canon, has been committed to the asylum,…
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