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A Study on Falling

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Pub Date Aug 05 2025 | Archive Date Dec 12 2025


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Have you ever kept walking, sure that the exit was near, only to realise that you’ve been going around in circles?
Ever been trapped?
I have.

Once, I was someone. A bestselling author whose prose charmed the world. I was in love, I was married, and my muse was my partner through it all. Then came the accident. I lost a part of myself – became a man unravelling, a husband undone. A novelist without words.

See, the mind can be a maze. Mine became a labyrinth.
I was banished to a hospital for the gifted, where my paranoia wasn’t cured; it only grew, fed by the doctors and my fellow inmates surrounding me.

My name is Henry Levi. I’m a writer. This isn’t a memoir, it’s a record of my time spent in the depths of the labyrinth, fumbling in the dark for the golden thread that would lead me to salvation.
A story, a warning, a legend … call it what you like.

I call it my Study on Falling.

Have you ever kept walking, sure that the exit was near, only to realise that you’ve been going around in circles?
Ever been trapped?
I have.

Once, I was someone. A bestselling author whose prose...


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Lost in the Labyrinth and Loving Every Page
A Study on Falling is the kind of mind-bending, emotionally intense read that pulls you into its spiral and dares you to find the way out.

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A Study on Falling is a dark, immersive psychological drama that follows Henry Levi, a once celebrated author whose life unravels after a devastating accident leaves him broken in body and spirit and searching for meaning inside the confines of a highly unsettling institution. Told as a personal record rather than a simple story, the book slowly pulls you into Henry’s spiraling thoughts and growing paranoia, making the reader feel just as trapped inside the maze of his mind as he is. I really enjoyed how intimate and raw the writing feels, especially the way it captures grief, anger, and creative loss without trying to soften them, which made the experience feel deeply personal and hard to shake long after I closed the book.

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This book grabbed me fast and did not let go. From the moment Henry starts questioning his sanity and the people supposedly there to save him, I was hooked and honestly a little unsettled in the best way. I loved how this story messes with your head and makes you question what is real, what is fear, and what happens when a brilliant mind starts turning against itself. If you enjoy intense stories that crawl under your skin and stick with you, this is absolutely worth reading because it is smart, moody, and fearless in how deep it goes. 🌀📖

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