The Asylum -

John Harwood

Jonathan Cape

2013

272 páginas

9h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780224097413

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. She will in the end discover a web of greed and crookedness, madness, murder and heartbreak, as rich and compelling as those in the classics of Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.