Helpful Score: 21
This is the first I've read of Mcgrath. His writing is very haunting and beautiful and the story stayed with me long after I read it. Very gothic.
Helpful Score: 4
Love story within the walls of an asylum and the deepening madness that affects it and the others that observe it.
Helpful Score: 2
A real page turner!! Don't start this book if you have to get up early the next morning.
Helpful Score: 2
A great read. The book's description does not do it justice. A real page-turner!
Helpful Score: 2
A glimpse into life of a woman who is yearning for passion and danger. She lives on an estate near insane persons and her husband is a psychologist. This book takes you on a journey through the desires and passions of a beautiful and headstrong woman, who is living during a time when women weren't supposed to be headstrong, or think much for themselves. She journeys from picking the vegetables in her garden and taking care of her son in her hum drum daily routine, to another exciting world filled with danger, artists, and love.
