Marlborough Bookclub

In October we’ll be discussing The Mad Woman’s Ball by Victoria Mas.

The fictional story about three women in the Salpêtrière Asylum in Paris, 1885.
Based on an historical event; once a year the asylum hosted a ball where the bourgeois mixed with women cast out of society. Geneviève is a nurse in the institution who cares for Louise, a beautiful young patient and star of the asylum’s hypnotism displays. But when Geneviève meets Eugénie, the daughter of a bourgeois family, their fates collide on the night of the Mad Women’s Ball.

I’m looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts on this. See you soon.