Freud's Alphabet

At once a delightfully inventive chronicle of Freud's last days and an insightful reflection on Freudian existence.

A brilliantly inventive and intelligent first novel about Freud's last years in London, psychoanalysing the nation as it slips into the collective madness of World War Two. Freud— dying of cancer—has come to London to escape persecution in Austria, bringing with him his famous couch, his collection of tribal totems and his insights into the English. Cared for by his biographer ...