A Feigned Madness
- Authors
- Mitchell, Tonya
- Publisher
- Cennan Books of Cynren Press
- Tags
- fic041000 fiction , biographical (*); fic014000 fiction , historical , general
- Date
- 2020-10-06
- Size
- 3.42 MB
- Lang
- en
Winner of the 2021 Phoenix Award in Historical Fiction from the Kops-Fetherling International Book Awards
Winner of the Silver 2021 Reader View Reviewer's Choice Award in Historical Fiction
The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Cochrane has a secret.
She isn't the madwoman with amnesia the doctors and inmates at Blackwell's Asylum think she is.
In truth, she's working undercover for the New York World. When the managing editor refuses to hire her because she's a woman, Elizabeth strikes a deal: in exchange for a job, she'll impersonate a lunatic to expose a local asylum's abuses.
When she arrives at the asylum, Elizabeth realizes she must make a decisionis she there merely to bear witness, or to intervene on behalf of the abused inmates? Can she...