#BookReview: The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas
A provocative and profoundly affecting novel.
A surprising and darkly delightful debut that has all the makings of great story.
Set in the Salpetriere Asylum (Paris, 1885) where mad, inconvenient and unwanted women are locked up and the key thrown away, the story brings two worlds on a collision course.
Genevieve is a senior nurse.
After the childhood death of her sister Blandine, she shunned religion and placed her faith in science.
Her long-held beliefs are challenged with the arrival of Eugénie, the young woman with a secret that could cost Genevieve everything.
Mas tenderly explores society’s tendency to pronounce harsh judgement, the struggle for redemption and the need for the freedom to question everything.
A provocative and profoundly affecting novel.
Publisher: Penguin RandomHouse
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