Pilcrow is a novel by Adam Mars-Jones first published in 2008 by Faber.

The book is in the form of a memoir by an adult John Cromer telling the story of his childhood and adolescence in the 1950s and early 1960s.

He develops Still's disease at an early age and is confined to bed under a misdiagnosis of rheumatic fever.

When the nature of his disease is finally realised he is transferred to the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital in Taplow, Berkshire under the care of Dr Barbara Ansell, but by then he has very little movement left in his joints.

"[2] The book finishes with John Cromer at the age of sixteen.