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The major new novel from the author of Great Apes, How The Dead Live and The Book Of Dave, now in paperback. Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, this follows maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner as he arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, under a professional and marital cloud. Determined to avoid more stress or controversy, he throws himself into the case of Audrey Dearth, a working class girl who has been immured in Friern for decades...