For the avid reader, discerning collector and real Noel O'Reilly - fan (to be),

a new, signed, limited / numbered, 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of

Noel O'Reilly

The Darlings of the Asylum

HarperCollins / Goldsboro, London / UK, Dec 2022

Your copy is number 851 (of 1,300). It is unread and new. It is flat signed by Noel O'Reilly in black pen to the title and limitation page and comes with beautifully stencilled and sprayed edges and designed front and end papers (see photos)!

"In 1886, a respectable young woman must acquire a husband. But Violet Pring longs to be a professional artist and live on her own terms.

When she turns down a desirable marriage proposal from an eligible Brighton gentleman, her family have had enough of her independent streak. Against her wishes, they lock her away in Hillwood Grange Lunatic Asylum.

Now at the mercy of the sinister Dr Rastrick, she must keep her wits about her if she has any hope of escaping.

This tantalizing Gothic novel from Noel O’Reilly tells a thrilling story of duty and desire, madness and sanity, truth and delusion from within a Victorian asylum." (harpercollins.ca)

"Noel O’Reilly was a student on the New Writing South Advanced writing course. He has worked as a journalist and editor at the international business media company RBI, and is now a freelance writer. "Wrecker" was his first novel. He lives in Brighton with his wife and children." (harpercollins.ca)