Literary Thriller 1998

Asylum by Patrick McGrath

Published in Spanish as Locura

In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane.

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What it is

A place nobody can leave · nobody is entirely good

What happens in it

Closed setting

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Is it for you?

It's for you if…

  • you like a story shut inside one place
  • you like a book that leaves you uneasy
  • you're drawn to the dark side of people

Maybe not if…

  • you're after something comforting

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