The scold's bridle
Dr. Sarah Blakeney is one of very few mourners when her sharp-tongued patient, Mathilda Gillespie, dies at home in the bathtub, apparently of suicide. The woman has taken barbiturates, slit her wrists, and bound her head in a rusted device called a scold's bridle, a cage with tongue clamps used...
| Main Author: | Walters, Minette. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Picador,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st Picador ed. |
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