Susan Hill Susan Hill

TB or not to be

There are dark secrets at ‘the Gwen’, a hospital for consumptives, in Linda Grant’s moving story of medical mayhem in postwar Kent

issue 29 October 2016

  • The Dark Circle

    Linda Grant

    Virago, pp. 310

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