- Collected
- Video
Authors And Asylums
- 1 June, 2018
John O’Donoghue on mental illness, and revisiting Victorian asylums in fiction. John O’Donoghue explains the origins of his memoir ‘Sectioned’, and how his experience of Victorian asylums has inspired his first novel.
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