The painted bridge
By: Wendy Wallace
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Charnwood series
Publisher: Thorpe; Charnwood
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781444815238
Subjects: Psychiatric hospital patients; Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Lake House is a private asylum for genteel women of a delicate nature. In the winter of 1859, Anna Palmer becomes its newest patient, tricked by her husband and incarcerated against her will. Anna sets out to prove her sanity, but her freedom will not be won easily. As the weeks pass, she finds some surprising allies: Lucas St Clair, a physician who believes the new medium of photography may reveal the state of a patient's mind; Talitha Batt, a longtime inhabitant who appears as sane as she is; and the proprietor's highly strung daughter. Yet the longer Anna remains at Lake House, the more she realises that - like the ethereal bridge over the asylum's lake - no one and nothing is quite as it appears ...
Notes: Adult.