The Locked Ward: A Novel

"The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen This intriguing multi-perspective thriller from the author of House of Glass features two twins, separated at birth: one seeking to uncover the truth about why they other is currently being held in a psychiatric unit, accused of murder. Georgia, the detained sister, presents as a very unreliable narrator of her own story. As she tells herself, and therefore the reader: You are supposedly in a dissociative state, which you learned about years ago because you wrote a twenty-page paper on it for a college psychology class… It turned out to be the most important thing you learned in college. That paper may have saved your life. Georgia was adopted by a wealthy family and has grown up to be a glamorous wedding planner and socialite. Mandy, her twin, has lived a harder life until now. She’d seen the headlines about this very Southern scandal but had no idea she would soon be sucked in. “Escapist and entertaining,” declares the Southern Review of Books."