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Book Synopsis'ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE' KATE SAWYER 'WILL GET UNDER YOUR SKIN AND LODGEITSELF IN YOUR HEART' ERIN KELLY 'HEARTBREAKING AND LIFE-AFFIRMING' LOUISEHARE 'POWERFUL, TIMELY, IMPORTANT' BETH UNDERDOWN BEAUTIFUL, COMPLEX ANDMOVING' PLATINUM MAGAZINE 'POWERFUL AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' RED 'I URGEEVERYONE TO READ THIS NOVEL' ERICKA WALLER 'THESE CHARACTERS WILL WRAP AROUNDYOUR HEART' ARAMINTA HALL From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comesa blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of complicity and atonement, delvinginto one nurse's experience of the little-known history of conversion therapyand the heart-breaking betrayal of the AIDS crisis. March 2020. Annie is alonein her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories forcompany. But then she receives a phone call which plunges her deeper into thepast. 1959. Annie and Rita are student nurses at Fairlie Hall mental hospital. Working long, gruelling hours, they soon learn that the only way to appeasetheir terrifying matro