Begun when W.N.P. Barbellion was 13 years old, The Journal of a Disappointed Man at first catalogues Barbellion’s misadventures in the Devon countryside – collecting birds’ eggs, spying girls through binoculars – but evolves into a deeply moving account of his struggle with poverty, his lack of formal education, his flailing attempts at love, and most harrowing of all his slow death from multiple sclerosis.
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
