The Girl Who Couldn’t Read

Name: The Girl Who Couldn’t Read
Price: 7.79 EUR
Author: John Harding
ISBN: 9780007562107

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John Harding

The Borough Press
Paru le : 28/08/2014

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher New England, The 1890s When a young doctor begins... > Lire la suite

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A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher New England, The 1890s When a young doctor begins work at an isolated mental asylum, he is expected to fall in with the shocking regime for treating the patients. 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. In this chilling literary thriller from a master storyteller, everyone has something to hide and no one is what they seem.

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Date de parution : 28/08/2014
Editeur : The Borough Press
ISBN : 978-0-00-756210-7
EAN : 9780007562107
Format : ePub
Nb. de pages : 304 pages

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Biographie de John Harding

John Harding is one of Britain's most versatile contemporary novelists. He is the author of five novels. Born in a small village in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, he was educated at the village school and read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford. His latest novel, The Girl Who Couldn't Read (2014) is a sequel to Florence and Giles that can be read as a standalone novel by those who haven't read the earlier book.