![]() ![]() You can find her living with her partner Fergus in deepest Yorkshire, England, in a house of creaking doors and crooked walls. ![]() But constantly hanging over him is this warning: that doctors are apt to catch the diseases with which they are surrounded – whether of the body or the mind…. Alison's latest novel is The Crow Garden (2017), is a tale of obsession set amidst Victorian asylums and sance rooms. Increasingly besotted, Nathaniel finds himself caught up in a world of séances and stage mesmerism in his bid to find Vita and save her. Vita 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. Doctor Whatshisface was an unremarkable, misogynistic asshole who only. 2.0 I literally only just closed this book and I’ve already forgotten the man’s name. ![]() Nathaniel is increasingly obsessed with Vita, but when he has her mesmerised, there are unexpected results. Only show reviews with written explanations. Nathaniel’s only interesting case is Mrs Victoria Adelina ‘Vita’ Harleston: her husband accuses her of hysteria and delusions – but she accuses him of hiding secrets far more terrible. 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. ![]() Haunted by his father’s suicide, Nathaniel walks away from the highly prestigious life of a consultant to become an asylum doctor. Susan Hill meets Alfred Hitchcock in Alison Littlewood’s latest chiller.Īsylum doctor Nathaniel Kerner is obsessed with the beautiful Mrs Harleston – but is she truly delusional? Or is she hiding secrets that should never be uncovered? ![]()
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