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The Crow Garden (häftad, eng)
Susan Hill meets Wilkie Collins in Alison Littlewood''s latest chiller: mad-doctor Nathaniel is obsessed with the beautiful Mrs Harles...
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Susan Hill meets Wilkie Collins in Alison Littlewood''s latest chiller: mad-doctor Nathaniel is obsessed with the beautiful Mrs Harleston - but is she truly delusional? Or is she hiding secrets that should never be uncovered . . . ?
Haunted by his father''s suicide, Nathaniel Kerner walks away from the highly prestigious life of a consultant to become a mad-doctorHe 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 séances and stage mesmerism in his bid to find Victoria and save her.
But constantly hanging over him is this warning: that doctors are apt to catch the diseases with which they are surrounded - whether of the body or the mind . .
''[An] enjoyable excursion . . . gripping'' The Sunday Times
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 400 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Quercus Publishing |
Utgivningsdatum | 2017-10-05 |
ISBN | 9781786485083 |
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- Häftad, 400, Engelska, Quercus Publishing, 2017-10-05, 9781786485083
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 400
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Quercus Publishing
- Utgivningsdatum 2017-10-05
- ISBN 9781786485083