{"product_id":"painted-bridge-9781451660838","title":"Painted Bridge","description":"\u003cb\u003eSpellbinding and intricate, \u003ci\u003eThe Painted Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of secrets, lost lives, and a woman seizing her own destiny: \"A chilling page-turner about the muddy line between sanity and madness\" (Caroline Leavitt, author of \u003ci\u003ePictures of You\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOutside London behind a stone wall stands Lake House, a private asylum for genteel women of a delicate nature. In the winter of 1859, recently married Anna Palmer becomes its newest arrival, tricked by her husband into leaving home, incarcerated against her will, and declared hysterical and unhinged. With no doubts as to her sanity, Anna is convinced that she will be released as soon as she can tell her story. But Anna learns that liberty will not come easily. The longer she remains at Lake House, the more she realizes that--like the ethereal bridge over the asylum's lake--nothing is as it appears. She begins to experience strange visions and memories that may lead her to the truth about her past, herself, and to freedom...or lead her so far into the recesses of her mind that she may never escape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in Victorian England, as superstitions collide with a new psychological understanding, novelist Wendy Wallace \"masterfully creates an atmosphere of utter claustrophobia and dread, intermingled with the ever-present horror of the reality of women's minimal rights in the nineteenth century\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eThe Painted Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of self-discovery, secrets, and a search for the truth in a world where the line between madness and sanity seems perilously thin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWallace, Wendy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Wendy Wallace, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Painted Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, is an award-winning freelance journalist and writer. Before she turned to fiction, she was a senior features writer for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Times Educational Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e for ten years and the author of a nonfiction book on life in an inner city primary school, \u003ci\u003eOranges and Lemons\u003c\/i\u003e. Her second novel is \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred River\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in London.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50850428322066,"sku":"9781451660838","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be4d208a-2857-439e-bd50-b0e9ea8283e0.jpg?v=1737411876","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/painted-bridge-9781451660838","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}