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The Grove

This is the name given to a secure forensic unit in North London where the narrator takes a job.

Broadmoor

This is the name given to a psychiatric hospital. The narrator worked here before taking another job at the start of the novel.

London

This city is where most of the action of the novel takes place.

Alcestis

This is the name given to both a play by Euripides and a self-portrait.

Alicia Berenson's Diary

This object provides a source of information regarding what happened in the weeks before (as well as the night of) the murder.

Countertransference

This is the term used to describe the feelings a patient rouses in a therapist during a session.

Cambridge

This is the name of the town where the artist was born and raised. Later, the narrator travels there to meet her cousin and aunt.

Gabriel's Rifle

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