{"product_id":"the-seance-isbn-9780547247823","title":"The Seance","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there . . .” Constance 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.Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance: perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life.\u003cbr\u003eSo begins The Séance, John Harwood’s brilliant second novel, a gripping, dark mystery set in late-Victorian England.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains—and murder. For Constance’s bequest comes in two parts: a house and a mystery. Years before, a family disappeared atWraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside with a sinister reputation.Now the Hall belongs to Constance. And she must descend into the darkness at the heart of theWraxford Mystery to find the truth, even at the cost of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Writer\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e  “Elegantly paced and delightfully macabre, [\u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Writer\u003c\/em\u003e] celebrate[s] the Victorian school and its obsession with the past’s authority over the present, the thin line between affection and obsession, the glimpse of the lurid from the corner of the eye.”—\u003cem\u003eWashington\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e     “\u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Writer \u003c\/em\u003emanages to evoke both the confident past and the more anguished present of the genre, and even to suggest, slyly, that although the illustrious tradition of the genteel British ghost story remains with us, we need to be very, very careful about disturbing its rest.”—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890123501797,"sku":"NP9780547247823","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780547247823.jpg?v=1768314514","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-seance-isbn-9780547247823","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}