The Mad Women's Ball
- Proizvođač: Penguin
- Šifra proizvoda: 9781529176773
- Dostupnost: Na lageru
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Victoria Mas
The prize-winning, international bestseller and Sunday
Times Top Fiction selection
The Salpêtrière asylum, 1885. All of Paris
is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have
been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But the truth is much
more complicated - for these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted
wives or strong-willed daughters. Once a year a grand ball is held at the
hospital. For the Parisian elite, the Mad Women's Ball is the highlight of the
social season; for the women themselves, it is a rare moment of hope.
Geneviève is a senior nurse. After the
childhood death of her sister, she has shunned religion and placed her faith in
Doctor Charcot and his new science. But everything begins to change when she
meets Eugénie, the 19-year-old daughter of a bourgeois family. Because Eugénie
has a secret, and she needs Geneviève's help. Their fates will collide on the
night of the Mad Women's Ball...
'A
darkly sumptuous tale of wicked spectacle, wild injustice and the
insuppressible strength of women' EMMA STONEX,
author of THE LAMPLIGHTERS
'An
essential story of women resisting the unjust exertion of male power' SUNDAY TIMES