The Asylum
The Asylum by John Harwood is a Gothic thriller published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013. This edition spans 257 pages and is presented in English. The story follows Georgina Ferrars, who awakens in a private asylum with no memory of her recent past. Dr. Maynard Straker informs her that she admitted herself under a different name, leading to confusion when her uncle claims she is at home in London. This revelation transforms her voluntary confinement into an involuntary one, setting the stage for a gripping mystery.
As Georgina embarks on a perilous quest to uncover the truth, she navigates from a cliffside cottage on the Isle of Wight to the hidden passages of Tregannon House. Her journey is driven by the need to reclaim her identity and recover her cherished possessions, including a dragonfly pin and a journal that holds the key to her missing memories. The narrative weaves together elements of suspense and family secrets, immersing readers in a world where danger lurks at every turn.
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A brilliant new Gothic thriller from the acclaimed author ofThe Ghost Writer andThe Seance
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 mustbe 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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