In Zodiac Light

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<p>It is December 1922 and the aftershocks of the First World War continue to make themselves felt. Ex-soldier, poet and composer Ivor Gurney, suffering from increasingly frequent and deepening bouts of paranoid schizophrenia, is transferred to the City of London Mental Hospital, Dartford.</p><p>Neglected by the military and by his own family, and abandoned by all but a notable handful of his friends, Gurney begins a descent into the madness and oblivion which he believes has long been waiting to claim him.</p><p>Yet following his arrival at Dartford, there are still those who continue to believe in Gurney's capabilities - in his 'wayward genius'. For a brief period, it seems that he might find some calm and ease in his life, and thus achieve the status so many consider him capable of.</p>

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Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include<i>Winter Garden</i>(1985 James Tait Black Prize winner),<i>A New Ice Age</i>(1986 runner-up for the 1986 Guardian Fiction Prize),<i>A Lunar Eclipse, The Earth Made of Glass, Elysium, In Desolate Heaven, The Sword Cabinet, The Book of the Heathen</i>(shortlisted for the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award),<i>Peacetime</i>(longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002),<i>Gathering the Water</i>(longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006) and<i>The Kingdom of Ashes</i>.

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