Bedlam: A Novel of Love and Madness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312427429)

An International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee

A Toronto Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

Conspiracies, plots, and paranoia are sweeping through London in the last days of the eighteenth century, and James Tilly Matthews has been caught under false pretenses and locked up in the city's vast, crumbling asylum. As his wife, Margaret, tries desperately to free him, political forces conspire to keep him locked up. Margaret's chief adversary is John Haslam, the asylum's chief apothecary, a man torn between his conscience and the lure of scientific discovery: as James becomes more famous--and more unhinged--he becomes a valuable specimen for the young doctor and a pawn in a grand political conspiracy. Based on real characters and events, Bedlam is a brilliant evocation of a city teetering between darkness and light, and a moving study of every kind of madness.

Author: Greg Hollingshead
ISBN-10: 0312427425
ISBN-13: 9780312427429
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2007
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/16/2007 pg. 32