Patrick McGrath was born and raised in Great Britain, traveled a lot, and spent several years on a remote, secluded island in the Pacific Ocean. Since 1981 he has lived and worked in New York. McGrath’s books “Blood, Water and Other Stories”, “Grotesque”, “Spider”, “Doctor Haggard’s Disease”, “Shelter” are distinguished by psychologism, original intrigue and impeccable style. “Shelter” "McGrath is his darkest, most realistic and at the same time his best book. The title of the novel “Asylum” can be translated in two ways: “Shelter” or “Madhouse.” The publisher settled on the first option. This is a multifaceted novel that evokes complex associations, a novel in which evil and fear take on strange guises, reflected both in our imagination and in the plot itself.