-Samuel sat on the toilet and began interviewing himself.- A teenage boy is in love with a girl and the radio. Set in England during the 1990s, the novel tells a story about dealing with adolescence and life, including the 'lunatic fringe' and 'lonely, upset, frightened and confused people' who call up radio stations around the country. The calls detailed in the novel are based on real calls to radio stations the author heard. 'To the Asylum' refers to the reply Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, received from the Italian government, upon the request for funding his experiments into...