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Title: The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Author: Emilie Autumn
Narrator: Emilie Autumn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-22-18
Publisher: The Asylum Emporium
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemy...their doctors.
"It was the dog who found me."
Such is the stark confession launching the harrowing scene that begins The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls as Emilie Autumn, a young musician on the verge of a bright career, attempts suicide by overdosing on the antipsychotics prescribed to treat her bipolar disorder. Upon being discovered, Emilie is revived and immediately incarcerated in a maximum-security psych ward, despite her protestations that she is not crazy, and can provide valid reasons for her actions if someone would only listen.
Treated as a criminal, heavily medicated, and stripped of all freedoms, Emilie is denied communication with the outside world and falls prey to the unwelcome attentions of Dr. Sharp, head of the hospital's psychiatry department. As Dr. Sharp grows more predatory by the day, Emilie begins a secret diary to document her terrifying experience and to maintain her sanity in this environment that could surely drive anyone mad. But when Emilie opens her notebook to find a desperate letter from a young woman, imprisoned within an insane asylum in Victorian England and bearing her own name and description, a portal to another world is blasted wide open.
As these letters from the past continue to appear, Emilie escapes further into this mysterious alternate reality where sisterhoods are formed, romance between female inmates blossoms, striped wallpaper writhes with ghosts, and highly intellectual rats speak the Queen's English.
But is it real? Or is Emilie truly as mad as she is constantly told she is?
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls blurs harsh reality and magical historical fantasy whilst issuing a scathing critique of society's treatment of women and the mental health care industry's treatment of its patients.
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Members Reviews:
Thrilling and multi-media fun!
This book is amazing. Written by Emilie herself, it switches between Emilie's all too real stay in a mental ward and the terrors that followed her, and the story of Emily with a Y, a young budding musician orphan in Victorian England. I haven't finished the book just yet, but from page one I was captivated! Emilie has amassed a following due to her spectacular vocals and boundary pushing lyrics, and this book does not disappoint her fans! Rumor has it, there's even a scavenger hunt hidden within the pages of this dual autobiographical fiction! If you want to take your experience outside of the book, Emilie has concocted an aptly dubbed "Rat Challenge" that you can participate in, where Emilie herself gives you the challenges that you must complete! All around a very fun experience and the fan-base is wonderfully open and inviting. Please note, though, the book does touch on very adult and unsavory topics so it is very much a book you should read first before giving to your young Plague Rat.
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