William Leith

The Devil in the mirror

  • The Locked Ward: Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly

    Dennis O’Donnell

    Cape, pp. 352

As a kid growing up in Scotland in the 1950s, Dennis O’Donnell was aware of ‘loonies’, and the men in white coats who were supposed to take them away. Then, as a student, he became one of the men in white coats. At first, he thought he’d find himself in a world of Beckettian absurdity and insight.

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