Korting Human Traces – Sebastian Faulks

‘AN EXTRAORDINARY NOVEL OF MAGNIFICENT SCOPE’ Evening Standard
In the 1870s, two ambitious boys from different backgrounds, Jacques Rebi and Thomas Midwinter, find themselves united by a determination to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human.
As pioneering psychiatrists, their quest takes them from an English county lunatic asylum to the plains of Africa, the lecture rooms of Paris and the mountains of Austria and California. They are guided by Thomas’s devoted…