01783cam a2200337 i 4500 1045367618 TxGeo 20231120120000.0 200107s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781529374544 trade pbk. 1529374545 trade pbk. TxGeo rda Davies, Brenda. The girl behind the gates / Brenda Davies. London : Hodder, 2020. 340 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happy future - until one night of passion has more catastrophic consequences than she ever could have anticipated. Labelled a moral defective and sectioned under the Mental Deficiency Act, she is forced to endure years of unspeakable cruelty at the hands of those who are supposed to care for her.1981. When psychiatrist Janet Humphreys comes across Nora, heavily institutionalised and still living in the hospital more than forty years after her incarceration, she knows that she must be the one to help Nora rediscover what it is to live. But as she works to help Nora overcome her past, Janet realises she must finally face her own." --Publisher. 20231120. Teenage girls Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Psychiatric hospitals Fiction. Psychiatrists Fiction. Physician and patient Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction. Historical fiction. Psychological fiction. QS5