Mrs Lincoln - The Novel of Abraham Lincoln's Wife

Incarcerated in an insane asylum after committal proceedings instigated by her own son, Mary Lincoln resolves to tell her own story in order to preserve and to prove her own sanity. Details of her first encounters with Abraham Lincoln, their courtship, marriage and troubled relationship are interspersed with disturbing accounts of the 'treatment' and behaviour of the women around her as she fights to be released from the sanatorium.