Bedlam

Greg Hollingshead

first published 2004 Thomas Dunne Books, 2006 hardcover 312 pages

A a series of plots, conspiracies, and outright paranoia sweeps across eighteenth-century England, James Tilly Matthews lands in Bethlem Hospital, a notorious asylum for the insane, apparently for political reasons, and despite years of struggle, his wife Margaret, has been unable to free him, because of the efforts of "Bedlam's" chief administrator, John Haslam.

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Bedlam paperback · 2007 · Picador · 320 pages · 9780312427429
Bedlam hardcover · 2006 · Thomas Dunne Books · 312 pages
Bedlam edition · 2005 · HarperPerennial · 478 pages
Bedlam hardcover · 2004 · HarperCollins Canada · 482 pages · 9780002005579

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