TY  - BOOK
AU  - Littlewood, Alison,
TI  - The crow garden
SN  - 9781786485083 (paperback)
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Jo Fletcher Books, an imprint of Quercus Editions
KW  - Psychiatrists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mesmerism
KW  - Hysteria
KW  - Women patients
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - Mental illness
N1  - "Set a guard upon your soul" -- cover
N2  - Haunted by his father's suicide, Nathaniel Kerner walks away from the highly prestigious life of a consultant to become a mad-doctor. He 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 seances and stage mesmerism in his bid to find Victoria and save her
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