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 Special Web Offer
titlecomplete: Asylum Special Web Offer
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Contemporary, Gothic, Mental Illness, Psychology, Historical Fiction, Horror, Romance
ratings_count: 27866
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Random House