The Girl Who Couldn't Read

by John Harding

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007324251
• ISBN13: 9780007324255
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Borough Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"