The Bullet: A memoir of madness, Family and the Asylums of the Past, Tom Lee

The Bullet: A memoir of madness, Family and the Asylums of the Past, Tom LeeNew Paperback Like many people, Tom Lee remembers the presence somewhere out of sight, on the outskirts of town of the local psychiatric hospital. It was a place that inspired jokes, rumours and dread, a place where the strange and deranged were kept away. But among those people were, at different times, Tom's own parents. Afterwards, those times were not much spoken about and before long the hospital closed, as part of the nationwide shutting down of

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