Bedlam
By: Greg Hollingshead
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) -- Fiction; Psychiatric hospitals -- Fiction; London (England) -- 18th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: A a series of plots, conspiracies, and outright paranoia sweeps across eighteenth-century England, James Tilly Matthews lands in Bethlem Hospital, a notorious asylum for the insane, apparently for political reasons, and despite years of struggle, his wife Margaret, has been unable to free him, because of the efforts of "Bedlam's" chief administrator, John Haslam.
Notes: Originally published: Toronto : HarperCollins, 2004