"Excessive study, especially in one of the fair sex, often leads to insanity." 
 There are so many amazing quotations from this book I could haul out to describe it to you, but I think the above best shows the central theme of the story, the attitudes of various characters (and the book's society as a whole), and the outrage you'll feel as you read. Don't worry though, you won't just be angry; you'll despair, feel elation, and most importantly, fall in love. 
 Seventeen year old Louisa Cosgrove has been betrayed. She arrives at Wildthorn Hall, unaware that it's an insane aslyum or why she's there. Stripped of her belongings, her trust, and even her own name, Louisa holds onto herself hard enough to find her true self. 
 This novel was wonderful to read. Eagland built her characters and setting so well that you are there along side of - inside of, even - Louisa and everything she experiences. Because of how well built of a world we're brought into any tropes or cliches that popped up just kind of passed me by without much notice. The one thing I had issue with at first was attention not being spent on (view spoiler)[Louisa's sexuality (though that ended up getting examined more later on) (hide spoiler)] but it wasn't entirely the focus of what Eagland was trying to show, and once I realized that I felt I understood it much better. 
 All in all it was a lovely, enjoyable read that I didn't encounter any problems with.