Ship of Fools: Stories from the Mental Health Front Line

For your consideration:

 

Nottingham’s Rod Madocks spent twenty years working as a mental health professional, including time in maximum security institutions. With his dark and authentic debut, No Way to Say Goodbye, Madocks called on those experiences and, interweaving photographs with chilling prose that took ten years to complete, produced a novel worthy of its short-listing by the Crime Writers Association for the John Creasey Dagger Award.

A policy officer in Mental Health Commissioning, the author has returned to his work experiences to pen a collection of twenty short stories, one for each year he has worked in the mental health system.

 

The new book is called Ship of Fools: Stories from the Mental Health Front, and its tag line: It's not the patients you should worry about. It's the staff you should watch out for.

Whilst the stories are fictional, they are clearly based on the real world of psychiatry and institutions, and are written from the point of view of a staff member.

This new collection has been described as ‘Intense and exhilarating with writing that is wryly comic and clear-eyed’.

Ship of Fools is published by Five Leaves.

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