The book, which took Filer three years to write, is based on his MA at Bath Spa University where he now lectures in creative writing. But the story has been on his mind for far longer. "I first started thinking of the main character when I was training as a nurse in 2003 so I've been mulling over it for years," he said. Fajler ima dara za pisanje i odlično je primenio malo drugačiji stil koji savršeno odgovara glavnom liku i njegovom problemu. Generalno nemam šta da zamerim knjizi, osim činjenice da sam ipak očekivao malo bombastičniji kraj. Kako sam se približavao kraju romana, nekako je sve ukazivalo na to kakav će da bude završetak.

The book cleverly gives you snippets of a story, then later on you get more of that story to give you the fuller picture, so there is a lot of a-ha moments, at least there was for me. I found it sad in parts, I really felt for his struggle against the illness that has hold of him, his moving between lucidity and delusion. Epically done.The worst thing about this illness isn’t the things it makes me believe, or what it makes me do. It’s not the control that it has over me, or even the control it’s allowed other people to take. When Matt is discharged from hospital for the first time after his diagnosis, the consultant psychiatrist asks him if Simon is in the room with them. In one sense, of course he is, he’s always there, in the thoughts and memories of his family and in the silences among them. There’s nothing especially mad about Matt’s belief in the recycling of his dead brother’s atoms as a form of material, secular afterlife. Nothing especially mad, either, about his seeing Simon’s face where it isn’t, in other people, in the moon. Grief, loneliness, exhaustion and psychotropic drugs can make anyone see things that aren’t really there. But Matt’s belief goes further. He doesn’t think Simon is present ‘in one sense’: he knows he is as present to him as he was when he was alive. He is under the bed, talking to him, poking his head out, smiling. ‘He beamed with pride, then pounced, throwing his arms around me. I let myself fall under his weight. It felt so good to hold him, I could hardly breathe.’

It was named as one of five category winners for the Costas and will go forward to compete for the overall book of the year prize, to be decided later this month. I have never read anything quite like this book before, it is a unique experience traveling along in the mindset of a mentally ill young man. I remember going to the theaters and seeing the movie "Beautiful Minds", I loved this movie, was completely blown away. That is how I felt at the end of this book. First time book for author Nathan Filer, and since he was a mental health nurse in previous years, he knew what he was writing about. But if you live in a place where is is often likely to rain, or your perception falters and dislocates so that you retreat, suspicious and afraid of those closest to you, that is climate.”Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of fluids. This is especially important when you’re spending time in very hot or humid environments.