Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove longs to break free from her respectable life as a Victorian doctor's daughter. But her dreams become a nightmare when Louisa is sent to Wildthorn Hall: labelled a lunatic, deprived of her liberty and even her real name. As she unravels the betrayals that led to her incarceration, she realizes there are many kinds of prison. She must be honest with herself - and others - in order to be set free. And love may be the key . . .

 

This book has been graded for interest at 16+ years.

This book was published 2009 by Pan Macmillan .

Jane Eagland was born in Essex and taught high school English for many years. She now divides her time between writing and tutoring. Her first novel, Wildthorn, received the Lambda Literary Award. Jane lives in Lancashire, only about one hundred miles from where the Brontes grew up.