About the Book: A Life Discarded
Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the
suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect
and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important
life left on the scrap heap. A Life Discarded is a biographical detective story.
In 2001, 148 tattered and mould-covered notebooks were discovered lying among
broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Tens of thousands of
pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part
of an intimate, anonymous diary, starting in