The girl who couldn't read
Harding, John, 1951-2014
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New England, the 1890s. A man calling himself Doctor John Shepherd arrives at an isolated women's mental hospital to begin work as assistant to the owner Dr Morgan. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his own dark secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Who is the woman who wanders the corridors by night with murderous intent? Why does the chief nurse hate him? And why is he not allowed to visit the hospital's top floor? Shocked by Morgan's harsh treatment of the patients, and intrigued by one of them, Jane Dove, a strange amnesiac girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read, Shepherd embarks upon an experiment to help her.
Main title:
The girl who couldn't read / John Harding.
Author:
Harding, John, 1951-, author
Imprint:
London : Blue Door, 2014.London : Blue Door, 2014.
Collation:
304 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780007324231 (hbk)9780007562107 (ePub ebook)0007324235
Dewey class:
823.9'2
Local class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
538066