- Fiction, Psychiatric hospital patients, Psychiatric hospitals, Psychiatrists' spouses
Stella Raphael, a woman of great beauty and formidable intelligence, is married to Max, a staid and unimaginative forensic psychiatrist. Max has taken a job in a huge top-security mental hospital in rural England and Stella, far from London society, finds herself restless and bored.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and contemporary.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- McGrath, Patrick
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Wheeler Pub., Vintage Books, Penguin
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140258226
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