The premise is startlingly ambitious: what if we could think our way into Alan Turing’s dreams? As his body and mind underwent disturbing changes, he talked to the Jungian therapist Franz Greenbaum. Turing was a philosopher, psychologist, mathematician and biologist – Eaves's narrative experiments honour that legacyIt’s hard to imagine a more challenging subject for a novel. The first part of Murmur, which was shortlisted for the BBC national short story award, invents Alec Pryor’s personal journal. Pryor considers the possibility of a shared mind, but he is an unreachably lonely ghost haunting his own past.

Source: The Guardian April 18, 2018 06:22 UTC