The Asylum Soul: Lunatic asylums were an inescapable hangover of Victorian Britain, and they carried a stigma born of an environment of fear, shame, and the great unknown.

For many families, the asylum system helped create their darkest ‘skeletons’, and for Thomas (Tommy) Compton, it was unforgiving. In 1929, he was twenty-three years old when his mother had him sent to The Brookwood Lunatic Asylum in Surrey, his only ailment - a simple speech defect.

Based on Tommy’s own diary notes, The Asylum Soul is a disturbing account of an innocent young life ripped apart by unthinkable institutional failings, false hope and ultimate family betrayal. More>>>

Betrayal

of the Soul 

Mal Foster's eagerly awaited eighth novel is now published...
What is internal conflict, and how do you win one battle after another against yourself?

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The Asylum Soul