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A haunting story of a Victorian-era mental hospital for women being converted into an apartment building. After feeling an inexplicable connection to it, a passerby is drawn deeper into the lure of the asylum and further away from her own life in this tense and transportive tale.

From the award-winning author of A Ghost in the Throat comes a time-traversing, form-defying, genre-morphing story of a reader unraveling the legacies of a fabled asylum and the women who haunt its halls.

In Cork, Ireland, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she nears the place. In another time, she might have found herself held within those walls.

She notices a sign, the first of many. Guided by an irresistible ...