1906: Being a woman is dangerous, being different is deadly. Maud Lovell has been at Angelton Lunatic Asylum for five years. She is not sure how she came to be there and knows nothing beyond its four walls. She is hysterical, distressed, untrustworthy. Badly unstable and prone to violence. Or so she has been told ... A gripping, gothic thriller about the mistreatment of mental health throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.