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â€œGothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrativeâ€¦This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses.â€â€”The Seattle Times

An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the womenâ€™s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian Londonâ€™s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbankâ€™s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a sÃ©ance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selinaâ€™s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selinaâ€™s freedom, and her own.
As in her noteworthy deput, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the New York Times Book Review, of "startling power."
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2002-01-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781573228732

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