Americanitis

Following the death of his wife, Miles, an academic and hypochondriac suffering from acute anxiety, finds himself in need of professional help. Americanitis is an extraordinary work that mercilessly blends fact with fiction and leaves the reader scrabbling for truth.

Miles Beard lives in Edinburgh and teaches at the Open University in Scotland. Educated in the US and UK, he has degrees in music and literature and previously taught English and Creative Writing in Tallinn, Estonia where much of the novel was writ-ten. Americanitis is his first novel.