Saving Lucia

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How would it be if four silenced women went on a tremendous adventure, reshaping their pasts and futures as they went? What if one of those people were a fascinating, forgotten aristocratic assassin, and another a fellow patient at St Andrews’ psychiatric hospital, Lucia, daughter of James Joyce; another the first psychoanalysis patient, known to history simply as ‘Anna O’, and finally Blanche Wittmann, ‘Queen of the Hysterics’ in nineteenth-century Paris?That would be extraordinary, wouldn’t it?How would it all be possible?Because, as the assassin Lady Violet Gibson would tell you, those who are confined have the very best imaginations.

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