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Bedlam

Greg Hollingshead

2004312 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2004
first published
  • 2005HarperPerennial · 478 pages · ENGISBN 9780006392828
  • 2006Thomas Dunne Books · 312 pages · ENGISBN 9780312354749
  • 2007Picador · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780312427429
  • 2004HarperCollins Canada · 482 pages · ENGISBN 9780002005579

A a series of plots, conspiracies, and outright paranoia sweeps across eighteenth-century England, James Tilly Matthews lands in Bethlem Hospital, a notorious asylum for the insane, apparently for political reasons, and despite years of struggle, his wife Margaret, has been unable to free him, because of the efforts of "Bedlam's" chief administrator, John Haslam.

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