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The sleep room
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- Book Synopsis
- The Royal Waterloo Hospital, London in the 1960s. Six young women lie asleep on low beds. Day and night no longer exist, extinguished by a potent cocktail of antipsychotic, sedative and anti-depressant drugs. The women are taken from their beds by the nurses and given electroconvulsive therapy before being put to sleep again. All under the predatory eye of Dr William Sargant. 'The Sleep Room' is a chilling exposé of Sargant's bizarre psychiatric treatments that were inflicted on hundreds of wome
- About The Author
- Jon Stock is a novelist and journalist. After reading English at Cambridge, he became a freelance reporter, writing investigative features for the Observer, Private Eye, GQ, the Telegraph and the Independent. For two years, he was a foreign correspondent in New Delhi before returning to become weekend editor of the Telegraph in 2005 and to write espionage novels. Dead Spy Running, part of the Daniel Marchant spy trilogy, was optioned by Warner Bros. with a screenplay written by Oscar-winner Stephen Gaghan. In 2015, he became a full-time author, writing psychological thrillers as J.S. Monroe. Find Me has been translated into fourteen languages. Jon is currently a Royal Literary Fund Bridge Fellow and is a vice chair of the Marlborough Literature Festival in Wiltshire, where he lives with his wife, the photographer Hilary Stock. They have three children.
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- ISBN
- 9780349128894
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The Bridge Street Press, (03 April 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 416
- Weight
- 682 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 158 x 38 mm
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