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Jott

A novel about friendship, madness and modernism

London in 1935 is a world of dingy pubs and bedsits; of strange inventions like psychoanalysis, feminism and modernist art; of fascism, communism and looming war; of asylums in which the mentally ill are subjected to cruel and primitive treatments. Arthur, a junior doctor in London’s oldest mental hospital, is about to compromise his medical ethics for the sake of his closest friend, a brilliant and charismatic aspiring writer called Louis.

But soon Arthur finds that he doesn’t want to become a minor character in someone else’s story, he must change the narrative of his lifelong friendship, and create a story of his own.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 304
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781473675056
  • Genres
  • fiction, historical
  • Release date
  • 2018