The Cambridge Theorem (2014)
“The Old Hospital was a fortress-like Victorian asylum built behind a high stone wall on a knoll outside the town. In the Summer ancient elm trees shrouded the grim turrets and barred windows almost completely from view. Now in the early Spring the bare limbs of the trees, capped with the bell-shaped nests of a rookery, formed a gray curtain in front of brown stone of the buildings. At the rear of the hospital a huge chimney rose from the heating plant, like a textile mill. This was the original... hospital, where the worst cases, the chronically mentally ill were housed. The modern half of the hospital had been built in the late sixties on flat farmland between the Old Hospital and the main road, and its trim, low buildings, unwalled and unfenced, with expanses of lawn like playing fields on three sides, spoke of the bleak civic optimism of that era. Smailes pulled into the car park outside the new wing. Bowles had been a short stay resident, a month-long rehab job; he had not needed to ask in which wing Dr.MoreLess
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