A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats.
'A book of sheer wonder. As an author he competes as an equal with the ablest of them' DAILY EXPRESS

A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats.

'A book of sheer wonder. As an author he competes as an equal with the ablest of them' DAILY EXPRESS

This is the story of Joseph Meehan, born cruelly handicapped and known to the world as 'the crippled boy'. Filled with insight into the soul inside a broken body and warm with the beauties of the Irish landscape it is the story of Joseph's fight to escape the restrictions and confines of his existence.

UNDER THE EYE OF THE CLOCK can also be read as the autobiography of its author, Christopher Nolan.