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'This is a terrifying story about a persecuted man wrongly imprisoned in a mental hospital. As the horrors of institutional life accumulate, Gul Y Davis's novella recalls Franz Kafka at his darkest.' Andrew Biswell, Daily Telegraph 'Gul Y Davis' depiction of life inside the psychiatric system is made even more horrifying because of the sharp, clear way it is written. In a short book which packs an almighty punch, Davis follows one patient, beset by paranoid delusions, through a nightmarish mental health system. It's an unsparing, frightening book which conveys the hallucinatory horror of derangement heightened by the fear of being trapped in an uncaring system. Chilling.' Tina Jackson, Big Issue ' A Lone Walk is a short novel about the life of a patient in care for his mental condition. Gul Davis has the advantage of being able to write and I have nowhere read a description of such a life more convincing and more readable.' His Honour Sir Stephen Tumim 'Gul Davis is a real writer. The novella encloses the reader in a tight grip from the beginning, refusing to let him go till he's listened. It's strange, to have entered someone's head, and their skin, to this extent - quite eerie.…