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Book SynopsisSimply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN''Gripping Bravura storytelling'' VOGUE''A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare'' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women''s asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, his work focuses on women who have been neglected by the state women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation.Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche.''A ghastly and harrowing page-turner'' STEPHEN KING, via X''A triumph of style and brio'FINANCIAL TIMES''Terrifying'' FLAUNT''Vividly and compellingly-drawn'' iNEWS
