Ebook: Ship of fools: short stories from the mental health front line

"Its not the patients you should be worried about. Its the staff you should watch out for." Ship of Fools contains twenty stories on psychiatry, one for every year Rod Madocks worked as a mental health professional. These are vivid accounts of life and death, of betrayal and redemption. By turns hallucinatory, funny and plangent, these tales offer a rare glimpse into a secretive domain. Be careful of what you might find in this Underworld. They had drawn low cards in the lottery of life to get mental illness in the first place and they had us to deal with on top of that. Rod Madocks spent twenty years working in mental health, including maximum security forensic institutions. His first book, No Way To Say Goodbye, was shortlisted for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards.