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Synopsis
Product Description[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.]
[Read by Rosalyn Landor]
A brilliant new Gothic thriller from the acclaimed author of
The Ghost Writer and The Séance
Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor, Maynard Straker, tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy Ashton the day before and then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who replies that Georgina Ferrars is at home with him in London:
''Your patient must be an imposter.''
Suddenly her voluntary confinement becomes involuntary. Who is the woman in her uncle's house? And what has become of her two most precious possessions, a dragonfly pin left to her by her mother and a journal that contains the only record of those missing weeks? Georgina's perilous quest to free herself takes her from a cliffside cottage on the Isle of Wight to the secret passages of Tregannon House and into a web of hidden family ties on which her survival depends.
Here is another delicious read from the author praised by Ruth Rendell as having ''a gift for creating suspense, apparently effortlessly, as if it belongs in the nature of fiction.''
Review
''[Harwood's] novel is an homage, a Victorian ghost story that honors the likes of Dickens and Henry James . . . A smart, stylish, and mesmerizing book.'' --
Washington Post Book World on
The Ghost Writer
''Creepy doings - certificates of insanity, switched identities, morbid personalities - in and around an asylum in nineteenth-century England . . . Harwood certainly makes the atmosphere work here.'' --
Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
JOHN HARWOOD is the author of several novels of gothic suspense, including
The Seance and The Ghost Writer, which won the International Horror Guild's Best First Novel Award. Aside from fiction, his published work includes biography, poetry, and literary history. He lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
Book Details
Published
May 1, 2013
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format
Audio Compact Disc - Unabridged
ISBN
9781482911091