# The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars

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- Authors: [Paul Broks](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-broks)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-746-2
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2019-05-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A man's wife dies. What next? The next day is next, and the next, and so on. He smothers his sorrow and gets on with the days. He's a Stoic. Tranquillity is the goal, but his brain won't rest. As a neuropsychologist he has spent a career trying to fathom the human brain but now, he comes to realize, his brain is struggling to make sense of him - probing, doubting, reconstructing. Combining neurological case stories and memoir, and with excursions into speculative fiction and mythology, this is an audaciously original, deeply personal meditation on grief, time and selfhood.