Kath's #16
I have no idea why, but I posted this to my journal on Sunday and not to the community.
#16 - The Seance by John Harwood.
I listened to this one on CD, but it was unabridged, so I'm going to count it. It was really very enjoyable - a gothic novel told in two parts. The first section and the end are about Constance, set in the 1880s in London, who has never felt comfortable in her skin and whose mother has been in grieving for years for her baby sister who died when she was two. In an attempt to help her mother move out of her depression, Constance takes her to a seance, where she learns that she might actually have medium abilities herself. Abruptly she is then discovered to be the heiress to a great tumbledown estate in the countryside. The lawyer who comes to tell her about it shares a journal of the last mistress with her.
The other story is that journal - Nell Wraxford, whose husband Magnus was a mesmerist. Something bad went down at Wraxford Hall and we discover what it was over the course of the novel.
I really enjoyed this one. It was well written and a good mystery. I recommend it if you enjoy gothics set in England.
#16 - The Seance by John Harwood.
I listened to this one on CD, but it was unabridged, so I'm going to count it. It was really very enjoyable - a gothic novel told in two parts. The first section and the end are about Constance, set in the 1880s in London, who has never felt comfortable in her skin and whose mother has been in grieving for years for her baby sister who died when she was two. In an attempt to help her mother move out of her depression, Constance takes her to a seance, where she learns that she might actually have medium abilities herself. Abruptly she is then discovered to be the heiress to a great tumbledown estate in the countryside. The lawyer who comes to tell her about it shares a journal of the last mistress with her.
The other story is that journal - Nell Wraxford, whose husband Magnus was a mesmerist. Something bad went down at Wraxford Hall and we discover what it was over the course of the novel.
I really enjoyed this one. It was well written and a good mystery. I recommend it if you enjoy gothics set in England.