num_pages: 250
description: As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair...
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: Random House