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Stage fright

2 September 2017

9:00 AM

2 September 2017

9:00 AM

Patrick McGrath is a master of novels about post-traumatic fragmentation and dissolution, set amid gothic gloom. His childhood years spent at Broadmoor, where his father was medical superintendent, have given him a solid grounding in psychiatric illness for these disquieting dramas.

His ninth novel is set in London’stheatreland in 1947, and the grey, skeletal remains of the bombed East End.

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