Interesting book set in Wartime England. After a few episodes Rowan's family place him in the care of an asylum. He is diagnosed with schizophrenia and undergoes shock electrotherapy. The story of Rowan and the other 'unique' occupants of his ward coupled with the back stories of the medical staff looking after them instills many emotions as you follow their journey to a "cure". Humour, pathos, anger, shock with a heart warming ending.