The locked garden
By: Gloria Whelan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Childrens Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780060790943; 9780060790967
Subjects: Psychiatric hospitals -- Fiction; Mental illness -- Fiction; Single-parent families -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction; Aunts -- Fiction; Family life -- Michigan -- Fiction; Michigan -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.