'Written in mental hospitals, in jail, and while its author was functioning in the community, this book is an intense, intimate portrait of the inner life of a schizophrenic. As soon as Burke finished this autobiographical "novel" in 1985, he took a massive overdose of drugs and ended a life that been plagued by paranoid schizophrenia for more than a decade.' (Publisher)
Writing Disability in Australia
| Type of disability | Schizophrenia. |
| Type of character | Primary (autobiographical). |
| Point of view | Unconfirmed. |
