The Girl Who Couldn’t Read - Couverture rigide

Harding, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0007324235 ISBN 13 : 9780007324231

Editeur : Blue Door, 2014

Synopsis

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher 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. As he attempts to solve the mystery of Jane's past his own troubled history begins to catch up with him and she becomes his only hope of escape, as he is hers. In this chilling literary thriller everyone has something to hide and no one is what he or she seems. The Girl Who Couldn't Read is the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed international bestseller Florence and Giles but can also be read as a gripping standalone novel.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

New England, 1890. Doctor John Shepherd arrives at a women s mental hospital to begin work as assistant to the owner. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Intrigued by a girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read, Shepherd embarks upon an experiment to help her. In this chilling literary thriller everyone has something to hide and no one is what they seem.
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Revue de presse :

Praise for Florence and Giles:
Real atmosphere is increasingly rare in novels and here it is in spades...A darkly glamorous tour de force
DAILY MAIL

'Harding rings enough ingenious changes on James's study of perversity to produce his own full-blown Gothic horror tale' INDEPENDENT

An elegant literary exercise worked out with the strictness of a fugue: imagine Henry James s The Turn of the Screw reworked by Edgar Allan Poe THE TIMES

--Reviews

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Blue Door
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007324235
• ISBN 13: 9780007324231
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304