Бедлам в огне

Mike Smith, a Cambridge graduate with the looks of a movie star, lives in London, sells rare books and is weary of his dreary existence. But everything changes when a former schoolmate, a rustic and plain-looking Gregory Collins, turns to Mike with a request to borrow his attractive face for the cover of his half-mad novel. So, quite unexpectedly for himself, Mike becomes a "writer", and soon he is invited to a strange psychiatric clinic - to teach crazy writing skills. The closed, surreal world of a madhouse, where it is difficult to understand who is a true psycho, and who is just pretending, makes Mike solve a riddle after a riddle, even sex becomes a charade for him, bordering on insanity. Hoaxes and madness have always been favorite themes of English writers. Jeff Nicholson - one of the most interesting British authors - in his picaresque novel chuckles at the morals of literary bohemia, psychiatry, the search for truth and one's "I". "Bedlam on Fire" is a book about writing, about mental health, about how to keep your sanity in this world that looks so much like bedlam.