The Seance

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

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The narrative, gracefully conceived, beautifully achieved, races along * Daily Telegraph *
Atmospheric... Harwood's writing adds a layer of ironic distance to fog effects, black-hearted villains and other old chestnuts * The Times *
Brilliantly atmospheric dark mystery... Try this if you like being scared out of your wits * Daily Mail *
Everything you could possibly ask for from a novel in this genre * Financial Times *
Harwood again proves himself a gifted storyteller... Seamlessly plotted, it is utterly compelling and full of suspense * Mail on Sunday *

Author Bio

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.