Excerpt from Three O'Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

I had two more attacks, much less strong than the last one, and learned the name of my illness—idiopathic generalized epilepsy—which means: the kind of epilepsy the doctors can't identify the cause of. At best, they make more or less reasonable conjectures. My epilepsy might be due to a trauma that had occurred during birth, or there might be other causes, causes they might never discover.

Based on this not very reassuring premise, the doctors developed a complex therapeutic plan and decided they could discharge me.

The worst was about to begin.

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