About the Author: Nathan Filer
Nathan Filer is a writer and lecturer in Creative Writing.
His stand-up poetry has been a regular fixture at festivals and spoken-word events across the UK, and has been broadcast on BBC 3 television and radio 4, 7 and 5 Live. He is also a BBC Best New Filmmaker and holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University.
He lives in Bristol with his partner and their baby daughter.
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Nathan Filer
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Paperback, Published in Jan 2014 by HarperCollins
ISBN10: 000749145X | ISBN13: 9780007491452
Page count: 314
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013
'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that.'
Debut novel about one man's descent into mental illness, following the death of his brother in childhood. Filer is a mental health nurse with a unique and startling insight into mental illness, and this book highlights a much-neglected subject.
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