The Gray Chamber

 "The Gray Chamber"

By

Grace Hitchcock

The author Grace Hitchcock wrote a great addition to the "True Colors - Historical Stories of American Crime".

There is several things about this book I found interesting. The author made Edyth Foster a very likable person. Edith was funny, not afraid to be different for the time period of 1887. She was not a prime and proper woman till Lavinia (her uncle's step daughter) came to town. She loved to ride a velocipede and loved fencing, which was a male sport.  Through fencing, she fell in love with her instructor Bane, who never saw her in a romantic light.
She had everything going for her, till her world changed forever.

The other things I found interesting is the asylum. It was so easy to have someone committed during the 1800's.  Back then the treatment was horrendous! Everything from lack of food, locking up while tied to their cot and taken to a room no one ever wants to go, the dreaded room called the gray chamber. 

I would recommend this book to anyone. I'm giving th is book 

a five out of five stars.

The was a complimentary copy of this book from Barbour Publishing and I was under no obligation to post a review.