I don't think I need to spell out how bad that is.
Except she goes into labour while wrapped in the sheets. Bad behaviour, intentional or not, was punished with beatings, electric shocks, and something called "sheet wrapping" - the patient was tightly wrapped in sheets that were either really cold, or burning hot from the steamer (leaving a small gap for breathing) and then left for hours.
Many patients were subjected to cruel treatment because there was little to no policing of the system.
You may or may not know that mental "hospitals" a hundred years back were not often caring places of recovery and understanding. As you can imagine, it immediately had my wide-eyed, horrified attention. Grace Mae is in a Boston mental asylum where she has been hidden away to hide the family shame - she carries a baby that her own father put there. I wanted this: the fine line between sanity and insanity, good and evil-and the madness that exists in all of us.Īnd I got it - for the first 10% of the book.Ī Madness So Discreet opens wonderfully and horrifically. Something that the blurb had promised and that the creepy, beautiful cover reinforced. When I picked this book up, I confess I was hoping for something. Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television’s True Detective and American Horror Story. But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who will bring her shaky sanity and the demons in her past dangerously close to the surface. Now comfortable in an ethical asylum, Grace finds friends-and hope. Continuing to operate under the cloak of madness at crime scenes allows her to gather clues from bystanders who believe her less than human. When a visiting doctor interested in criminal psychology recognizes Grace’s brilliant mind beneath her rage, he recruits her as his assistant. Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum-but it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life.
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