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A review by creaseinthespinebooks
The Key by Kathryn Hughes
5.0
First of all I rarely give out 5 stars but when I do it’s because a story has moved me so much that it takes days and sometimes weeks to get over and this will be the case for The Key.
This was not an easy story to read as we read about asylums and a disturbing look at the misguided and sometimes barbaric treatment of the mentally ill during the 1950s.
Like most asylums and Kathryns research she does a wonderful of casting a bleak picture of the asylum and its dark atmosphere. The characters add to this story and how some of them are treated in ways that you would not think possible and is not for the weak at heart. We also learn the evil ways and horrors of electroshock therapy and the true abuse that these people receive.
And yet even though this is a fictional story it is based on actual facts.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book which evoked many thoughts and feelings.
Kathryn is an author that brings her characters and their surroundings to life. She has written a page turner that deserves to be made into a film.
I need to really look into her other books.
This was not an easy story to read as we read about asylums and a disturbing look at the misguided and sometimes barbaric treatment of the mentally ill during the 1950s.
Like most asylums and Kathryns research she does a wonderful of casting a bleak picture of the asylum and its dark atmosphere. The characters add to this story and how some of them are treated in ways that you would not think possible and is not for the weak at heart. We also learn the evil ways and horrors of electroshock therapy and the true abuse that these people receive.
And yet even though this is a fictional story it is based on actual facts.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book which evoked many thoughts and feelings.
Kathryn is an author that brings her characters and their surroundings to life. She has written a page turner that deserves to be made into a film.
I need to really look into her other books.