The Medea Complex, Rachel Florence Roberts
The Medea Complex, Rachel Florence Roberts
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The Medea Complex

Author: Rachel Florence Roberts

Narrator: Elizabeth Sastre, Bianca Amato, Jeff Woodman, Robert Ian Mackenzie

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/03/2015

Synopsis

A deep and riveting psychological thriller inspired by true events of the Victorian era, The Medea Complex explores the nature of the human psyche: what possesses us, what drives us, and how love, passion, and hope for the future can drive us to insanity. 1885. Anne Stanbury wakes up in a strange bed, having been kidnapped from her home. As the panic settles in, she realizes she has been committed to a lunatic asylum, deemed insane and therefore unfit to stand trial for an unspeakable crime. But all is not as it seems . Edgar Stanbury, her husband as well as a grieving father, is torn between helping his confined wife recover her sanity and seeking revenge for his ruined life. But Anne's future rests wholly in the hands of Dr. George Savage, chief medical officer of Bethlem Royal Hospital. The Medea Complex is the darkly compelling story of a lunatic, a lie, and a shocking revelation that elucidates the difference between madness and evil .

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark

The Medea Complex is one of those stories. The ones you drag yourself along to the cinema to see after reconsidering because there was nothing else on, or read because you happened to have it and then discover how close you came to missing out on a truly unexpected wonder. R.F. Roberts has hit the gr......more

Goodreads review by Natasha

I struggled with giving this 2 stars. . It was interesting enough for me to finish it through (but maybe that was because I wasted .99 on it and didn't have the heart to lose out on a dollar).. I felt like the description of the book was extremely enticing - then I started the novel and it went downh......more

Goodreads review by Cleopatra

The beginning of this book took me by surprise, for a horrible moment I thought this was going to be a poorly researched voyage into the late nineteenth century; I was wrong, this book was a mixture of authentic details of life in the changing world of lunatic asylums along with a gripping mystery a......more

Goodreads review by Angelica

This dark and compelling tale is set in the late 19th century, a period when mental health was largely misunderstood and the mere shadow of doubt could condemn someone to a lifetime of misery in a lunatic asylum. In this historical setting, Lady Anne Stanbury finds herself interned in a mental hospi......more

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