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kats05 's review for:
The Shock of the Fall
by Nathan Filer
A worthy winner of the 'Costa First Novel' award 2013, this is a striking debut novel by someone who has found the right angle of writing about a serious mental health issue, schizophrenia. An experienced mental health nurse, Nathan Filer has had the courage, the talent and the insights to write about this "sly and slithering snake of a disease"; I applaud him.
The fictional narrator's reflections and emotional anecdotes of his childhood and teenage years are sometimes shocking and often scary (so vivid that I was painfully reminded of the angst I felt during my work experience in a psychiatric hospital in my student days, and why I chose not to pursue a career in clinical psychology after all), but also filled with many funny and poignant moments, and always insightful and very touching.
I am looking forward to reading whatever Nathan Filer decides to write next.
The fictional narrator's reflections and emotional anecdotes of his childhood and teenage years are sometimes shocking and often scary (so vivid that I was painfully reminded of the angst I felt during my work experience in a psychiatric hospital in my student days, and why I chose not to pursue a career in clinical psychology after all), but also filled with many funny and poignant moments, and always insightful and very touching.
I am looking forward to reading whatever Nathan Filer decides to write next.