Book 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 aone, 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. 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
.
