It not only made the story more enjoyable, but more believable, too. There were women in Wildthorn that were actually insane, but others that were admitted for reasons that would have been used in Victorian times. The other characters added to the suspense (and questioning of her true sanity).
It made reading the novel very suspenseful and enjoyable. Learning so much about Louisa while reading about her being 'Lucy' in an insane asylum and the back and forth really did make me wonder at times whether she was legitimately insane or put there to make someone's life easier. Wildthorni was told in flashbacks of the main character's life that gradually met up with the present, allowing you to get to know her both in the present and the past at the same time. If you can imagine a sort of Girl Interrupted (which I'll admit I haven't seen in a long, long time) and meets Rebel Angels (you'll remember that Bethlem Royal Hospital, played an itty part in that book), then you'll have an idea of why Wildthorn was so amazing. Stuck in a Victorian mental hospital, Louisa (or Lucy) knows she doesn't belong and has to get out. The more she claims the be Louisa Cosgrove and not insane, the worse things get. Getting no assistance from her chaperone, Louisa is turned over to the staff at Wildthorn who insist that her name is Lucy Childs. When her carriage arrives, she finds herself at Wildthorn Hall, an insane asylum. Now, at the age of seventeen, she's on her way to be the companion to the sister of her brother's friend. Now as a teen, she wants to be a doctor like her father, who educated her himself, much to the dismay of her mother and hates going on social calls with her mother.
As a child she pushed the boundaries, loved science and dissecting things and was not at all a girly-girl. Louisa Cosgrove is not your typical Victorian girl.
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