Lulu Marketplace

It is 1961 and Cold-War Britain cowers beneath the nuclear threat – of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) at just four minute’s warning. Recently left school and out-of-work, Alan Hall accepts a job he’d never have considered: as a mental nurse, caring for people with appalling disabilities, from deaf-blind babies to adults exhibiting florid mania. Unexpectedly he comes to see Ward 14 as a haven of sanity from a world gone MAD… until a mystery patient comes and goes in the night. They say mental nursing is a job from which there’s no escape – but Alan has a place at university. Of all the staff and patients, he alone can walk through the door when he likes… the door out of hell!