Nick Blackburn & Helen Macdonald: The Reactor
Thursday 27 January 2022, 7 p.m. · 50 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/1/3/6/2/3712631-2-eng-GB/Nick%20Blackburn.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/1/3/6/2/3712631-2-eng-GB/Nick%20Blackburn.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/1/3/6/2/3712631-2-eng-GB/Nick%20Blackburn.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/1/3/6/2/3712631-2-eng-GB/Nick%20Blackburn.jpg 1200w)
From debut author Nick Blackburn, a therapist specialising in LGBTQ+ issues, comes The Reactor, a powerful new addition to the literature of grief and recovery. Following the death of his father Blackburn examines the nature of destruction, both natural and human-made, drawing on a repertoire of film, music and pop-culture. Olivia Laing has described The Reactor as ‘Beautiful, strange and completely compelling’ and Helen Macdonald praises it as ‘One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.’
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