“Monkey’s Uncle” is a well-written story – Charlotte, admitted to psychiatric hospital, fissures into “Charlotte-up-there” and “Charlotte-below”.  The up-there Charlotte battles with depression and the monsters of memory, while Charlotte-below is completely immersed in a fantasy life, an inner world of madness, with a talking orang-utan Jenny and imagined characters of Marx, Darwin and Freud, who fail to live up to her life-organising and affirming ideals of them.

44 – “Charlotte had always imagined (and she had imagined) that madness might be anguish, misery, confusion, fear; but it had never crossed her mind that it might be a grassy bank, an ornamental lake, perplexity and not knowing what to do next”