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The Glass Cage
£16.99
A blistering account of fame, class and the cost of reinvention, as John Healy confronts what happens after survival − and the invisible cage success can build
‘A master storyteller’ Daniel Day-Lewis on The Grass Arena
Nearly four decades after his acclaimed memoir The Grass Arena, John Healy delivers the long-awaited second volume of his extraordinary life.
The Glass Cage begins in the wake of sudden literary success and fragile sobriety, as Healy attempts to inhabit a world far removed from the prisons, streets and wino jungle that shaped him. Thrust into publishing, publicity and middle-class expectation, he finds himself disoriented by power, privilege and the subtle humiliations of class.
Written with fierce candour and dark, unsparing wit, this is a memoir not of escape, but of exposure − and of the cost of crossing worlds.
OUT AUGUST 2026. AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW
Hardback: XXXpp
Published: Wilton Square (August 2026)
ISBN: 9781806771240
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