![]() ![]() Not long after the death, a lawyer named John Montague, gets in contact with Constance who has now inherited a mysterious and desolate manor called Wraxford Hall. Her mother is momentarily happy again when she thinks she has spoken to Alma but Constance’s mother soon tragically dies. ![]() ![]() ![]() When her father abandons the family, a desperate Constance takes her mother to a seance where there is an understanding between Constance and the medium. Constance grows up lonely and detached and wonders if she is really a foundling, an orphan or child put up for adoption, since her parents never appear to hold any love for her. A young girl, Constance Langton, is emotionally shunned by her mother who is overwhelmed by grief after the death of Constance’s younger sister, Alma, and is ignored by her father. The novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century where mesmerism, spiritualists and seances were at its height of popularity. Unfortunately, and most disappointingly, the novel largely falters and the writing never quite captures the atmosphere it deserves. His first was the amazingly creepy and wondefully gothic The Ghost Writer and his second novel carries on the gothic theme. The Seance is the second novel from Australian writer John Harwood. ![]()
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