num_pages: 250
description: In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage.But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues--a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.
language: English
title: Asylum
titlecomplete: Asylum
genres: Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Thriller, Psychology, Horror, Romance, Contemporary, Mental Illness, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 27876
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Viking