The locked garden /
Gloria Whelan.
- 1st ed.
- New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2009.
- 168 p. ; 22 cm.
After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.