Description
| Product ID: | 9780007324255 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Girl Who Couldn't Read |
| Authors: | Author: John Harding |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher 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. |
| Imprint Name: | The Borough Press |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-04-09 |
