Book Description: Will Edyth prove her sanity before it is too late? On Blackwell Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving. With her late father’s fortune under her uncle’s care until her twenty-fifth birthday in the year 1887, Edyth Foster does not feel pressured to marry or to bow to society’s demands. She freely indulges in eccentric hobbies like fencing and riding her velocipede in her cycling costume about the city for all to see. Finding a loophole in the will, though, her uncle whisks Edyth off to the women’s lunatic asylum just weeks before her birthday. Do any of Edyth’s friends care that she disappeared?
At the asylum she meets another inmate, who upon discovering Edyth’s plight, confesses that she is Nellie Bly, an undercover journalist for The World. Will either woman find a way to leave the terrifying island and reclaim her true self?
My Thoughts: I love, love the True Colors Historical Stories of American Crime series. And I love the stories that Grace Hitchcock pens.
The Gray Chamber was eerie and somewhat scary but for a true crime buff ever so interesting! And it's based on truth that happened many years ago which makes it an even better story.
It's one of this reads that one just keeps saying one more chapter cause I need to know what's going to happen. And Edyth's evil uncle who tries tooth and toenail to get Edyth into a woman's lunatic asylum. Just because she's a free spirit and he likes her money, well wants all her money.
But Edyth, though she may be eccentric, she is not stupid or a coward.
She finds another inmate and together they can fight the bad. Its sad how women used to be second class citizens and men could ramrod them into all sorts of bad situations.
I found this story so intriguing that I just couldn't put it down.
*I received a complimentary copy of this book from
Barbour Publishing and was under no obligation to post a review.*
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