Alexander Masters has made an art form out of telling the remarkable stories of vulnerable and forgotten Cambridge inhabitants. In 2001, 148 tatty and mouldy notebooks were found in a skip in Cambridge. They were a small part of an intimate diary that began in 1952 and ended 50 years later. In A Life Discarded he shares the true, shocking and poignant story of this mysterious diarist, which culminates in an astounding final revelation.