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1890s: A doctor goes to work at a very isolated mental asylum but is shocked at the horrors within..
The Girl Who Couldn’t Read
What you need to know before your trail
A young doctor begins work at an isolated mental asylum, but soon realises that he is expected to fall in with the shocking regime for treating the patients. He sees the darkness and depravity of the place immediately on arrival but still declares that it’s better that what he had been used to lately. Nothing is known of the doctor yet so you wonder what this means!He is soon intrigued by one patient, a strange amnesiac girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read. He embarks upon a desperate experiment to save her but when his own dark past begins to catch up with him, he realises it is she who is his only hope of escape.
It seems as it everyone has something to hide and no one is what they seem.
Travel Guide
New England island (fictional)
“An island, for Christ’s sake, what had I been thinking of? Sanctuary , I suppose, somewhere out of the way and safe, but also – I saw now- somewhere from which it would be difficult to make a quick exit”
The horror of the inhuman treatments the patients are made to suffer are immediately apparent. There are some sadistic staff here too.
“No way out there should a person need to leave in a hurry”
The gothic building of the asylum itself is everything a dark gothic horror house should be. There are shadows walking the corridors, floorboards which creak and screams coming from locked doors. This is a grim and unforgiving environment, with the wind whistling through the windows or could it be yet more screams of the patients in distant rooms?
Wrap up warm, this is chilly
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Girl Who Couldn’t Read
Author/Guide John Harding Destination: New England Departure Time: 1890s
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