The Asylum
A brilliant new Gothic
thriller from the acclaimed author of The Ghost Writer and The Séance…
Confused and disoriented,
Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum
in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The
doctor, Maynard Straker, tells her that she admitted herself under the name
Lucy Ashton the day before, then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has
mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who
replies that Georgina Ferrars is at home with him in London: Your patient must
be an imposter.
Suddenly her voluntary
confinement becomes involuntary. Who is the woman in her uncle's house? And
what has become of her two most precious possessions, a dragonfly pin left to
her by her mother and a writing case containing her journal, the only record of
those missing weeks? Georgina's perilous quest to free herself takes us from a
cliffside cottage on the Isle of Wight to the secret passages of Tregannon
House and into a web of hidden family ties on which her survival depends.
Another
delicious read from the author praised by Ruth Rendell as having a gift for
creating suspense, apparently effortlessly, as if it belongs in the nature of
fiction.
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