The Asylum
The Asylum
- ISBN 13:
9780544003477
- ISBN 10:
0544003470
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 05/21/2013
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary
A new Gothic thriller from the acclaimed author of The Ghost Writerand The Seance Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, an 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 in her uncle's house? And where is her writing case and her dragonfly pin, keepsakes from her mother from which she is never parted? Georgina's urgent quest to free herself takes us from a cliffside cottage on the Isle of Wight to the secret passages of Tregannon House, 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."