The Asylum
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Oct '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
I am Miss Georgina Ferrars, of Gresham's Yard, London. I am. I swear that I am. And I shall prove it.
A young woman wakes in a strange bed.
A sickly light filters through a metal grille.
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
Madness?
A young woman wakes in a strange bed.
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.’
This, however, is not her name.
And she should not be here – in the Asylum.
She is Miss Georgina Ferrars, 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
Madness? Mistaken identity? Or are there more malevolent forces at work?
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 *
ISBN: 9780099578840
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm
Weight: 192g
272 pages