With love, Alice x

Alice is a young and beautiful woman who has had everything in life, her husband jack and two beautiful children she lived rather happily. Until one freak accident tore everything out of proportion and threw Alice down a road of extreme torment and harassment and insanity.

This is from Elsie Dawson, a nurses view who volunteered for a two week period at a physiatrics hospital. Who wrote letters to people in order to know their story.

Set in 1930s America following the Great Depression