The Seance - Hardcover

Harwood, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151012032 ISBN 13: 9780151012039

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Synopsis

A haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house, and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost Writer Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there . . .” Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance’s sister, the child she lost.Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance: perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life.
So begins The Séance, John Harwood’s brilliant second novel, a gripping, dark mystery set in late-Victorian England.
It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains—and murder. For Constance’s bequest comes in two parts: a house and a mystery. Years before, a family disappeared atWraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside with a sinister reputation.Now the Hall belongs to Constance. And she must descend into the darkness at the heart of theWraxford Mystery to find the truth, even at the cost of her life.

About this title

Review:

'a brilliant, post-modern Gothic tale'

Book Description:

The breakthrough novel from one of Australia's finest writers - a gripping story of ghosts, betrayal and murder in Victorian England

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0151012032
• ISBN 13: 9780151012039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328