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  • By: Will Self
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  • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Shiva Mukti is a hardworking and conscientious psychiatrist, who, in the inauspicious surroundings of St Mungo's - a central London hospital of more than average decrepitude - does his level best to staunch the flow of mental illness. But Mukti is not a happy man; beset by thwarted ambition and sexual frustration, he now finds himself in thrall to the more successful and urbane Dr Zack Busner, consultant psychiatrist at Heath Hospital, and an originator of the once modish Quantity Theory of Insanity. 

Why is it that Busner seems so intent on fostering a professional relationship with Mukti? Is it his way of putting his junior colleague in his place? Or is Busner - as Mukti begins to suspect - a member of a sinister cabal? And what about the schizophrenic patients Busner refers to Mukti for his opinion; are they merely sick people or in fact human weapons in a bizarre psychological duel?
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if you're new to Self -

If you're new to Self this or Quantity Theory are a good place to start. Will Self seems to have abandoned short stories for the long form novel which is a bloody shame because no one else matches up to his level of wit or craft - funny, dark, heart breaking with acidic observations, sharp and brilliant. AND what's more he can really read a story.

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