The Mad Women's Ball: A Sunday Times Top Fiction Book

Victoria Mas

For fans of The Doll Factory and The Familiars, a gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women - one deemed mad, the other sane - who find their salvation at The Mad Women's BallThe Salpetriere asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on w...