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The crow garden

Littlewood, Alison, author

Overview

Haunted by his father's suicide, Nathaniel Kerner walks away from the highly prestigious life of a consultant to become a mad-doctor. He takes up a position at Crakethorne Asylum, but the proprietor is more interested in phrenology and his growing collection of skulls than the patients' minds. Nathaniel's only interesting case is Mrs Victoria Harleston: her husband accuses her of hysteria and delusions - but she accuses him of hiding secrets far more terrible. Nathaniel is increasingly obsessed with Victoria, but when he has her mesmerised, there are unexpected results: Victoria starts hearing voices, the way she used to - her grandmother always claimed they came from beyond the grave - but it also unleashes her own powers of mesmerism ... and a desperate need to escape. Increasingly besotted, Nathaniel finds himself caught up in a world of seances and stage mesmerism in his bid to find Victoria and save her.

• Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus Editions
• Subject: Psychiatrists England Fiction. / Psychotherapist and patient Fiction. / Mesmerism Fiction. / Hysteria Fiction. / Women patients Fiction. / Psychiatric hospitals Fiction. / Mental illness Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781848669888, 1848669887

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6112.I884 C76 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE