The Girl Who Couldn't Read
by John Harding
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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. A man calling himself Doctor John Shepherd arrives at an isolated women's mental hospital to begin work as assistant to the owner Dr Morgan. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his own dark secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Who is the woman who wanders the corridors by night with murderous intent? Why does the chief nurse hate him? And why is he not allowed show more to visit the hospital's top floor? Shocked by Morgan's harsh treatment of the patients, and intrigued by one of them, Jane Dove, a strange amnesiac girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read, Shepherd embarks upon an experiment to help her. As he attempts to solve the mystery of Jane's past his own troubled history begins to catch up with him and she becomes his only hope of escape, as he is hers. In this chilling literary thriller everyone has something to hide and no one is what he or she seems. The Girl Who Couldn't Read is the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed international bestseller Florence and Giles but can also be read as a gripping standalone novel. show lessTags
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HollyMS Both are historical gothic fiction set in Victorian asylums.
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Atmospheric, mysterious and gripping- everything I hoped for in a sequel to the wonderful Florence & Giles.
Interesting narrative - plot had me hooked.
Nueva Inglaterra, década de 1890. Un hombre que se presenta como el doctor John Shepherd llega a un apartado manicomio de mujeres para trabajar como ayudante del director de la institución, el doctor Morgan. Shepherd, que lucha por ocultar sus más oscuros secretos, no tarda en descubrir que el centro también guarda una buena cantidad de ellos: ¿quién es esa mujer que recorre los pasillos al caer la noche? ¿Por qué lo odia tan encarnizadamente la enfermera jefe? Y ¿por qué no le permiten visitar la última planta del hospital? Sorprendido por la dureza con que Morgan trata a sus pacientes e intrigado por una de ellas, Jane Dove —una joven amnésica que adora los libros pero no sabe leer—, Shepherd se embarcará en un show more arriesgado experimento para intentar ayudarla...
Un apasionante relato de intriga criminal que, mediante una habilidosa vuelta de tuerca, homenajea las narraciones más inquietantes de clásicos como Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James o Charlotte Brönte, manteniendo, con firmeza y hasta la última página, toda la tensión narrativa. show less
Un apasionante relato de intriga criminal que, mediante una habilidosa vuelta de tuerca, homenajea las narraciones más inquietantes de clásicos como Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James o Charlotte Brönte, manteniendo, con firmeza y hasta la última página, toda la tensión narrativa. show less
Sep 7, 2022Spanish
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