Wil’s break for freedom from a brutal psychiatric regime confronts him with unexpected choices. Who can he trust? An alluring voice from his childhood dreams? Or a big-hearted nurse who reassures him: ‘Not all of these places are the same’?

Gul Y. Davis’ nightmarish vision is balanced by wit, tenderness and a passionate sense of humanity.

Gul Davis’s moving tale of an innocent betrayed, abused and tipped headlong into the corrupting world of psychiatric care is bleak, fierce and powerful

— Paul Wilson

Gul Davis is a real writer. His turn of phrase is striking and his control of effects remarkably assured. This novella encloses the reader in a tight grip from the beginning, refusing to let him go until he’s listened. It’s strange to have entered someone’s head, and their skin, to this extent

— Margaret Forster

I have nowhere read a description of such a life more convincing and more readable

— Sir Stephen Tumim