confined

Gabriel Dax was too good a creation to be confined to one novel.

Credited with helping to ignite second-wave feminism in the 1960s, the book claimed that many middle-class, college-educated women were dissatisfied being confined to their roles as housewives and mothers.

It was a marked contrast to Rossen’s current life, which is largely hermetic and domestic, confined to the four walls of his home.

But 130 patients who were confined to their beds, as well as 98 residents of a nursing home who could not be moved, were left behind without staff to care for them.

Riley revealed: "I'm petrified of rats, confined spaces and the dark."