Susan Hill meets Wilkie Collins in Alison Littlewood's latest chiller: mad-doctor Nathaniel is obsessed with the beautiful Mrs Harleston - but is she truly delusional? Or is she hiding secrets that should never be uncovered .
? Haunted by his father's suicide, Nathaniel Kerner walks away from the highly prestigious life of a consultant to become a mad-doctor.
He takes up a position at Crakethorne Asylum, but the proprietor is more interested in phrenology and his growing collection of skulls than the patients' minds.
Nathaniel's only interesting case is Mrs Victoria Harleston: her husband accuses her of hysteria and delusions - but she accuses him of hiding secrets far more terrible.
Nathaniel is increasingly obsessed with Victoria, but when he has her mesmerised, there are unexpected results: Victoria starts hearing voices, the way she used to - her grandmother always claimed they came from beyond the grave - but it also unleashes her own powers of mesmerism .
and a desperate need to escape.
Increasingly besotted, Nathaniel finds himself caught up in a world of seances and stage mesmerism in his bid to find Victoria and save her.
But constantly hanging over him is this warning: that doctors are apt to catch the diseases with which they are surrounded - whether of the body or the mind .
'[An] enjoyable excursion .
gripping' The Sunday Times.
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| Harleston | Her husband accuses her of hysteria and delusions but she accuses him of hiding secrets far more terrible |
| Victoria, but when he has her mesmerised, there are unexpected results | Victoria starts hearing voices the way she used to her grandmother always claimed they came from beyond the grave but it also unleashes her own powers of mesmerism and a desperate need to escape |
| But constantly hanging over him is this warning | That doctors are apt to catch the diseases with which they are surrounded whether of the body or the mind 039 |
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