{"product_id":"from-daylight-to-madness-book-jennifer-anne-gordon-9781735402116","title":"From Daylight to Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest book from the critically acclaimed author of Beautiful, Frightening, and Silent; Jennifer Anne Gordon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn an almost uninhabitable rocky island off the coast of Maine, a Hotel looms over the shore, an ever-present gray lady that stands strong like a guard, keeping watch. For many who come here, this island is a sanctuary and a betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a place where memories linger like ghosts, and the ephemeral nature of time begins to peel away ...like the sanity of all who have been unlucky enough to step foot on its shore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late spring of 1873, Isabelle gave birth to her son Oscar, he cried for three startling minutes, and then went silent. During the months that follow, Isabelle is drugged and lulled into an almost hallucinatory world of grief and fear. Her life begins to feel as though it exists in a terrifying new reality separated from those around her ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her grieving begins to make her husband, Henry, uncomfortable, he and his mother conspire to send Isabelle away to a Summer Hotel on Dagger Island, where she can rest and heal. While they are adamant that the hotel is not an asylum and that Isabelle will be able to return eventually to her home, Isabelle understands in her heart that it is all a lie. That perhaps, everything about being a woman in this time, may have always been a lie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer family has lied to her, and she has lied to herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hotel, of course, is not what it seems, and the foreboding Dagger Island begins to feel more like a prison than a retreat. Isabelle hears relentless sounds coming from the attic above her room, and the ever-present cries of small children scream in her head almost constantly. Are they hallucinations, or are they connected to the small cemetery she found, filled with the fresh dirt of little graves, the brokenhearted reminders of people that no one believes ever existed?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe meets a fellow guest at the Hotel, a young, enigmatic, and deeply damaged priest, named Francis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether they teeter on the edges of reality and try desperately to become free from the fates that their pasts have bound them to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Daylight to Madness is a poetic, and haunting Gothic Fiction novel that is both profoundly unsettling and darkly romantic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49650547392785,"sku":"GOR013396369","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50399182291217,"sku":"CIN1735402117G","price":11.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50399183307025,"sku":"CIN1735402117VG","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1735402117.jpg?v=1750801563","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/from-daylight-to-madness-book-jennifer-anne-gordon-9781735402116","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}