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The key / Kathryn Hughes.

Summary:

1956. It's Ellen Crosby's first day as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young woman committed by her father, and a pioneering physician keen to try out the various 'cures' for mental illness, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change all their lives for ever ... 2006. Sarah is drawn to the abandoned Ambergate Asylum. Whilst exploring the old corridors she discovers a suitcase belonging to a female patient who was admitted fifty years earlier. The shocking contents lead Sarah to unravel a forgotten story of tragedy, lost love and an old wrong that only she may have the power to put right ...

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781472248855
  • ISBN: 1472248856
  • ISBN: 9781472248848
  • ISBN: 1472248848
  • Physical Description: 439 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: London : Headline review, an imprint of Headline Publishing Group, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes bonus material: Q & A with the author.
Includes an excerpt from: The secret.
"A life stolen. A heart broken. A wrong that needs to be made right."--Cover.
Subject: Nursing students > Fiction.
Psychiatric hospital patients > Fiction.
Mental illness > Treatment > Fiction.
Psychiatrists > Fiction.
Asylums > England > Fiction.
Ambergate (England) > Fiction.
Genre: Romance fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Blair County Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Altoona Area Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Altoona Area Public Library F HUG (Text) 33240004482397 Adult Fiction Available -


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