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Wildthorn

Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove is locked away in the Wildthorn Hall mental institution, where she is stripped of her identity and left to wonder who has tried to destroy her life.

Main Author: Eagland, Jane.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2010, c2009.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Young adult fiction.
Psychiatric hospitals > Young adult fiction.
Sex role > Young adult fiction.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove is locked away in the Wildthorn Hall mental institution, where she is stripped of her identity and left to wonder who has tried to destroy her life.
Item Description: Finalist, 23rd Annual Lambda Award.
Physical Description: 350 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780547370170
0547370172
Author Notes: Born in Essex, Jane Eagland taught English in secondary schools for many years. She earned an MA in Creative Writing and has worked as a tutor. She published Wildthorn in 2010, having been inspired by true stories of women who were incarcerated in asylums in the nineteenth century.

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