num_pages: 218
description: Seven people die in deep sleep therapy. A woman dies from a bee-sting on the grounds of a psychiatric clinic where inmates are encouraged to live out their delusions. A doctor rapes his patients in the Sleeping Beauty Ward.Carmel Bird's examination of the secrets of the human mind is a chronicle of tragedy that is inadvertently revealed in the search for a lost library book. It is also a compelling portrait of a doctor whose lust for power is a form of madness.
language: English
title: The White Garden
titlecomplete: The White Garden
genres: Australia
ratings_count: 26
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Aurealis Award
category: Best Horror Novel
publisher: University of Queensland Press