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The Comforts of Madness

Published
Dec 1989
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General Fiction General Fiction
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128

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THE COMFORTS OF MADNESS is the unspoken monologue of Peter, a 33-year-old catatonic psychiatric patient, who is selected for an intense and controversial process of rehabilitation. 


Published in 1988, the book won that year's Constable Trophy, the Whitbread First Novel award, and the Whitbread Book of the Year award. It has been translated into ten languages.

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Jan 1991 Anchor ISBN 0385267789
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First Edition Dec 1989 Doubleday ISBN 0385267770
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Jan 2015 Paul Sayer ISBN B00S58YB0O
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Jan 2015 Paul Sayer ISBN 0094684804
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