An exhilarating journey into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, from the acclaimed author of Let Me Not Be Mad.What does it take to care for a stranger? Really care.The Case for Love is a reflection on a career treating patients with brain trauma people whose thoughts and feelings are largely unknowable and how and why those treatments failed.It is a reconstruction of three haunting cases in which the patients were tragically misunderstood and an attempt through the power of the imagination to understand and make amends.It then describes the authors abandonment of his career and his tumultuous quest for healing and redemption.It is also a story of intimate relationships, pets, fatherhood and heartbreak, culminating in a moment of psychedelic transcendence and rebirth.It is about the overpowering need for connection and how, increasingly, we are trapped in ourselves.It is a meditation on empathy and an act of atonement.It is a unique, hybrid work of clinical case study and pure invention that destroys the boundary between fact and fiction in order to bring us facetoface with the shocking, liberating truth.Praise for Let Me Not Be MadImagine a gonzo Oliver Sacks communing with Edward St Aubyns Patrick Melrose, R.D. Laing and the spirit of Kafkas The Country Doctor, and you still wont quite have the flavour of this wild and strikingly original book William FiennesStunning clever, troubling, restless, honest, dishonest one of the best portraits of madness and...

Binding: Hardback;176 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: BGTA; Weight: 412 g; Dimensions: 142 x 223 x 22

Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back.

Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.

Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.

Click here to view our full Returns Policy.