The Seance

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Description

London, 1881. Constance Langton lives in a gloomy home with a distant father and a grief-stricken mother; seeking refuge and comfort, she secretly attends a séance which has tragic consequences. Left alone, her only legacy is a mysterious inheritance that will blight her life and take her deep into a world of apparitions, betrayal and blackmail, black-hearted villains – and murder.

Additional information

Weight 0.214 kg
Dimensions 1.9 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

304

Publisher

Year Published

2009-4-2

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

009951642X

About The Author

John Harwood was born in Hobart, Tasmania. Educated in Tasmania and Cambridge, he went on to become Head of the School of English and Drama at Flinders University, Adelaide. He is the author of two books of criticism, Olivia Shakespear and W. B. Yeats and Eliot to Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretation and the novels The Ghost Writer and The Asylum.

The narrative, gracefully conceived, beautifully achieved, races along

Other text

Atmospheric… Harwood's writing adds a layer of ironic distance to fog effects, black-hearted villains and other old chestnuts

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