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The Painted Bridge by Wendy Wallace is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Painted Bridge about?

The Painted Bridge is a story of family betrayals, illicit power, and a woman sent to an asylum against her will in Victorian England. Just outside London, behind a high stone wall, lies Lake House, a private asylum for genteel women of a delicate nature. In the winter of 1859, Anna Palmer becomes its newest patient. To Anna’s dismay, her new husband has declared her in need of treatment and brought her to this shabby asylum. Confused and angry, Anna is determined to prove her sanity, but with her husband and doctors unwilling to listen, her freedom will not be easily won. As the weeks pass, she finds other allies: a visiting physician who believes the new medium of photography may reveal the state of a patient’s mind; a longtime patient named Talitha Batt, who seems, to Anna’s surprise, to be as sane as she is; and the proprietor’s bookish daughter, who also yearns to escape. Yet the longer Anna remains at Lake House, the more she realizes that—like the ethereal bridge over the asylum’s lake—nothing and no one is quite as it appears. Not her fellow patients, her husband, her family—not even herself. Locked alone in her room, driven by the treatments of the time into the recesses o

Who reads The Painted Bridge?

Author

Wendy Wallace

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published

2012

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction

Rating

3.48 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14