Garth Toyntanen: 6 books

Alice’s legal guardian was no longer powerless, despite the girl’s age and the fact she was not now far from the ‘age of majority’. Much of that ‘self-reliance’ and ‘independence of spirit’ the girl had always been known for had now largely evaporated in the face of her new-found reliance...

The second part of the Alice story continues with our heroine becoming increasingly dependent on her 'medication', a dependency her stepmother and the woman she employs as the girl's governess are happy to exploit to keep Alice firmly under their control, and under their unique brand of strict discipline....

St Mary's Hospital School - the motto: through obedience comes learning, through discipline comes obedience. Humiliating enough that it should be proudly emblazoned on the front of the gymslip, the breat pocket of the stiffly starched blouse, the little open-fronted waist-length cape - that fastened...

Half their number were saddled with the additional encumberment of a plastic card hung around the neck on a thin, silvery chain-link lanyard spelling out the label ‘STUTTERER’ in glossy raised gold capitals. Not, ironically this violet eyed specimen, despite having developed a most debilitating nervous...

Two unrelated young women coincidently find themselves in similar circumstances; each having an inheritance at stake with a grasping manipulative stepmother holding the purse-strings. Both girls have found an ally in a supportive, if overbearing, ‘aunt’ figure but find themselves lovingly guided...

Another cane-in-hand tale of domestic discipline, domination, dependency, psychological manipulation and unashamed exploitation from the INSTITUTIONALISED stable.