The Stonehenge Letters follows a psychiatrist working in the Nobel Archives who, while researching why Sigmund Freud never received a Nobel Prize, uncovers a cache of extraordinary letters filed under “Crackpots.” Written by Nobel laureates including Rudyard Kipling, Ivan Pavlov, Theodore Roosevelt, and Marie Curie, the letters each claim to solve the mystery of Stonehenge—sustaining a playful ambiguity between historical record and imaginative invention.
A psychiatrist discovers the name “Thomas Darwin” in the admission register of Ontario’s London Asylum—an involuntary patient who died there in 1879 and may have been the last of Charles Darwin’s eleven children. Presented as a meticulously assembled archive of letters, memoirs, and scholarly writings, the novel reconstructs Thomas’s brief and troubled life while deliberately destabilizing the boundary between documented history and literary artifice.