TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor, B
TI  - The last asylum : a memoir of madness in our times
SN  - 0241951828
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Hamish Hamilton
N2  - This book is Taylor's powerful account of her battle with mental illness, set inside the wider story of the end of the UK asylum system. It also incorporates the history the Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch. At its peak this asylum housed nearly 3,000 patients -- among them, in the 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself
ER  -