A non-fiction literary psycho-thriller about a clinical neuropsychologist's descent into madness with an ingenious and shocking twist
A K Benjamin is a Clinical Neuropsychologist, specialising in diagnostics and acute rehab. Previously he was a screenwriter, spent two years as a contemplative monk and has worked at a number of NGOs, with homeless addicts, with gangs and with children with acquired and congenital neurological conditions. He no longer lives in the UK. A K Benjamin is not his real name.
Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat
*Guardian*
A mental-health memoir like no other … a genre-defying wake-up call
of a book … compelling … clever humane … holding back a sly twist
for the end
*Observer*
Let Me Not be Mad is stunning: clever, troubling, restless, honest,
dishonest; one of the best portraits of madness and clinical
practice I’ve read. I read it in two sittings. Extraordinary
*Olivia Laing*
A perfectly extraordinary – not to mention extraordinarily perfect
– tense Hitchcockian psychodrama. I have rarely read a more
haunting and enthralling account of a descent into madness. An
important, profound and fascinating book
*Stephen Fry*
Imagine a gonzo Oliver Sacks communing with Edward St Aubyn’s
Patrick Melrose, R.D. Laing and the spirit of Kafka’s 'The Country
Doctor', and you still won’t quite have the flavour of this wild
and strikingly original book
*William Fiennes*
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