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Here, Paige is immersed in a dream reality called 'the Journey'. If patients finish the Journey, then they can go home.
Secrets are exposed as Paige bonds with other teens who don't belong. The Journey is meant to be a cure - but Paige soon discovers dark forces within the hospital, and that the dream reality is the stuff of nightmares. Paige and her friends have limited chances to show progress, before it's too late.
Can they escape the ward? And can Paige find reasons to live?
Within the Ward is a novel that explores mental health and it's stigmatisation, particularly in youths. It encourages readers to challenge their preconceived notions of what mental health is and what it looks like, to create a better understanding of the diversity of mental health.
About the author
Emily Larkin is the USA Today bestselling author of the Baleful Godmother historical romance series, a series that readers are calling "sexy, unusual and vastly entertaining," and "ridiculously wonderful."When not reading or writing, Emily can be found hiking, preferably somewhere off the beaten track. She loves to travel, and has lived in Sweden, backpacked in Europe and North America, and traveled overland in the Middle East, China, and North Africa. Her varied career includes stints as a field assistant in Antarctica and a waitress on the Isle of Skye.Emily writes historical romances as Emily Larkin and fantasy novels as Emily Gee. She has been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA award, National Readers Choice, Booksellers Best, and Sir Julius Vogel awards, and has won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year and New Zealand Romance of the Year awards.
