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The Girl Who Couldn't Read

✍ Scribed by Harding, John

Book ID
108596062
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
297 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780007324231

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ 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...

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