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 ... time. I therefore had high hopes for this book. Unfortunately, although it did provide an interesting insight (if ficitional) into the treatment of a patient in 1940s Canada, I found this book didn't quite meet my expectations. Sandy Grey is a very young man - just nineteen - when he is incacerated in the asylum. Although it is not explained exactly why he ended up there until later in the book, it is made clear that he is there because of a mistake, rather than any long history of mental illness. Despite this, I ...more

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What it Takes to be Human - Marilyn Bowering: Mad, bad or sad? (844 words)
by - written on 30/11/07 (Very useful, 89 readings)
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At the beginning of World War II, Sandy Grey wants to sign up to fight, but is stopped by his father, who has other ideas for his son's life. When Sandy fights back, he is sent to an asylum. There, unsure of exactly what he is doing there, he tries to keep himself sane by writing about a man who was wrongly accused of murder many years before and died in the asylum when it was a jail. Sandy hopes that by proving this man innocent, he will also be able to prove to the asylum authorities that he is able to live a normal life. He is helped in his mission by a doctor who is on his side and a widow, who has her own problems, but thwarted by a psychopathic asylum assistant, ...  Read the complete review

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