The Quickening Maze Adam Foulds by Adam Foulds 9780307399113, 0307399117, B00329UWMW instant download after payment.

Based on real events, Adam Foulds’ deeply affecting and brilliantly imagined novel portrays an intense chapter in the life of the poet John Clare.

In 1840, after years spent struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, the great nature poet John Clare finds himself in High Beach Asylum. The asylum, built within Epping Forest, is a place of disorder and unpredictable drama. At the same time another poet, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and becomes entangled in the life and catastrophic schemes of the asylum’s owner, the peculiar, charismatic Dr Matthew Allen.

"It has been a while since I have read a book as richly sown as Adam Fould's novel The Quickening Maze... It is a remarkable work, remarkable for the precision and vitality of its perceptions and for the successful intricacy of its prose."  -  James Wood, The New Yorker

“It has been a while since I have read a book as richly sown with beauty . . . A remarkable work, remarkable for the precision and vitality of its perceptions and for the successful intricacy of its prose.” —James Wood, The New YorkerA visionary novel by "one of the most talented writers of his generation."   -  The Times Literary 

Adam Foulds received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. His novels include In Wolf’s Mouth and The Quickening Maze, which both won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature, and The Broken Word, which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award.