The House of Velvet and Glass - Softcover

Howe, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401341969 ISBN 13: 9781401341961

Publisher: Hachette Books, 2012

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 432 Publisher: Voice Katherine Howe author of the phenomenal New York Times Bestseller The Physick. Book of Deliverance Dane returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915 where a Young woman stands on the cusp of a new century. torn between loss and love. driven to seek answers in the depths of a crystal ball. Still reeling from the deaths of her mother and sister on the Titanic. Sibyl Allston is living a life of quiet desperation with her taciturn father and scandal-plagued other in an elegant town house in Boston's Back Bay. Trapped in a world over which she has no control. Sibyl flees for solace to the parlor of a table-turning medium. But when her other is suddenly kicked out of Harvard under mysterious circumstances and falls under the sway of a strange young woman. Sibyl turns for help to psychology professor Benton ...

About this title

About the Author:

Katherine Howe got her Ph.D. in American and New England Studies at Boston University. She is author of one previous novel, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. She lives in Ithaca, NY, with her husband.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1401341969
• ISBN 13: 9781401341961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432