Suspenseful Historical Fiction

Confused and disoriented, Georgina awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in remote England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor, Maynard Straker, tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy the day before, then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who replies that Georgina  is at home with him in London: “Your patient must be an imposter.”  Suddenly her voluntary confinement becomes involuntary. Who is the woman in her uncle’s house? And what has become of her two most precious possessions, a dragonfly pin left to her by her mother and a writing case containing her journal, the only record of those missing weeks? Georgina’s  quest to free herself takes us from a cliff side cottage  to the secret passages of Tregannon House and into a web of hidden family ties on which her survival depends.  The Asylum  is a brilliant Gothic thriller from John Harwood.