Pilgrim state
By: Jacqueline Walker
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780340960783; 9780340960790
Subjects: Psychiatric hospital patients; Fiction; Mothers and daughters; Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques; Romans, nouvelles; Mères et filles
Description: In the haunting opening pages, set in Pilgrim State mental facility in New York State in 1951, Dorothy has been forcibly sectioned and is battling to keep her children and her sanity. She will struggle all her life with both.