Bedlam Burning

Bedlam Burning by Nicholson, Geoff. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781585674534.

When the debut novel of Gregory Collins is accepted by a publisher he seems set on a course for literary stardom. Theres just one problem: he doesnt quite have the looks to match his talent, and his publisher wants a photo to put on the book jacket. He asks his handsome (but dim) college classmate, Mike Smith, to take his place. Consequently it is Smith rather than Collins who receives the offer to be writer-in-residence at an asylum where therapy is centered on the soothing powers of literature. Its not long before the boundaries between inmate and observer are blurred in this literary cuckoos nest and this comedy of errors verges on tragedy.