THE QUICKENING MAZE
In 1837, after years of struggling with alcoholism and depression, the great nature poet John Clare finds himself in High Beach?a mental institution located in Epping Forest on the outskirts of London. It is not long before another famed writer, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and grows entwined in the catastrophic schemes of the hospital?s owner, the peculiar, charismatic Dr. Matthew Allen, as well as with his lonely, adolescent daughter, and a coterie of mysterious local characters