Murmur

Winner of the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize n Winner of the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize n Shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize n Shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Prize n Longlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize n n Taking its cue from the arrest and legally enforced chemical castration of the mathematician Alan Turing, Murmur is the account of a man who responds to intolerable physical and mental stress with love, honour and a rigorous, unsentimental curiosity about the ways in which we perceive ourselves and the world. n n Formally audacious, daring in its intellectual inquiry and unwaveringly humane, Will Eaves's Murmur is a rare achievement. n