![]() ![]() ![]() Constance's bequest comes in two parts: a house and a mystery. It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains - and of murder. So begins this brilliant and gripping novel, a dark mystery set in late-Victorian England. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. Sell the Hall unseen burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will but never live there…Ĭonstance 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. 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. ![]()
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