it talks about the influence that doyle's mother had during his childhood with her stories of knights and ladies; of the unconventional relationship she had with a doctor slightly older than him when his father was in a lunatic asylum; of the blind eye she turned when doyle himself fell in love with another woman -while his wife fell prey to tuberculosis- and whom he eventually married.
his medical career was something which he kept in the background though he did try to earn his living initially by being a doctor, but his heart does not appear to have been in it...
then there is the unimaginable success of his sherlock holmes books while he tries hard to get his other novels noticed by his devoted readers. he was proud of his other novels but i doubt if any of us have even heard of them!!!
in his later years he took to parapsychology and was staunchly supported by his wife. it somehow cast a shadow on the reputation of such a great man- a doctor, the creator of holmes who though a fictional character, relied upon reason to provide him solutions- was now advocating and devoting time and energy to the study of ghosts...........
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