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Tortured youths: how childhood misery often makes for genius

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma Matthew Parris

Profile, pp.304, 16.99

Greatness. Genius. Can you bottle it? Is there a formula? Inspired by his Radio 4 series Great Lives, Matthew Parris delves into the childhood background of some big names to see whether there are common denominators, and rather gives the game away in the title, Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma.

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