The Asylum - Hardcover

Harwood, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224097415 ISBN 13: 9780224097413

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2013

Synopsis

A young woman wakes in a strange bed beneath coarse sheets.

The bare walls are a dismal green. A sickly light filters through a metal grille.

Doctor Maynard Straker steps into the room, and speaks.

‘Have no fear, Miss Ashton. I am entirely at your service.’

But this is not her name. And she should not be here – in the Asylum.

She is Miss Georgina Ferrars, of Gresham’s Yard, London.

And she can prove it. But when Dr Straker sends a telegram to her uncle in London, the reply is swift:

GEORGINA FERRARS HERE STOP

YOUR PATIENT MUST BE IMPOSTER STOP

So begins a gothic mystery of high suspense and terror, as a lone woman, held against her will, must delve as deeply as she can into the void of her memory to uncover the story that will free her.

About this title

Review:

"A twisting tale of greed, deceit and betrayal" (Daily Telegraph)

"Readers are guaranteed a thoroughly diverting time in Harwood’s not-to-be-trusted hands... A dizzying dance...we love every minute of it" (Barry Forshaw Independent)

"Harwood has a talent amounting to genius for channeling the spirit of 19th-century sensation fiction" (Andrew Taylor Spectator)

"Deliciously spooky" (New York Times Book Review)

"Harwood, master of creeping Victorian horror, does it again in his latest tale of pervasive evil and madness" (Booklist)

Book Description:

I am Miss Georgina Ferrars, of Gresham’s Yard, London. I am. I swear that I am. And I shall prove it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0224097415
• ISBN 13: 9780224097413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272