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Author:

Hughes, Kathryn, 1964- author.

Title:

The key / Kathryn Hughes.

Publisher:

Headline reviewan imprint of Headline Publishing Group,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

439 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Nursing students--Fiction.
Psychiatric hospital patients--Fiction.
Mental illness--Treatment--Fiction.
Psychiatrists--Fiction.
Asylums--England--Fiction.
Ambergate (England)--Fiction.
Asylums.
Mental illness--Treatment.
Nursing students.
Psychiatric hospital patients.
Psychiatrists.
England.
England--Ambergate.
Romance fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Romance fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

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.

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 ...

ISBN:

1472248848
9781472248848

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1031978017

Locations:

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

TSPC862 -- Norma Anders Public Library (Dysart)

NWPC663 -- Nissen Public Library (Saint Ansgar)

WGPB115 -- Sioux Rapids Memorial Library (Sioux Rapids)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)