Hazardous Spirits

Hazardous Spirits

An Entertainment Weekly'S Best Book Of FallEqual Parts Lush Gothic Mystery And Delicately Wrought 1920S Domestic Drama. . . . A Riveting Exploration Of The Unknowable-Whether ItS Ghosts, Spirits, Or The People We Love Most.-Tara Isabella Burton, Author Of The World Cannot Givein 1920S Edinburgh, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard Is A Young, Middle-Class Housewife Living The Life SheS Always Expected-Until Her Husband, Robert, Upends Everything With A Startling Announcement: He Can Communicate With The Dead.The Couple Is Pulled Into The Spiritualist Movement-A Religious Society Of Mediums And Psychics That Emerged Following The Mass Deaths Of The Spanish Flu And First World War-And EvelynS Carefully Composed World Begins To Unravel. And When Long-Held Secrets From Her Past Threaten To Come To The Surface, Presenting Her With The Prospect Of Losing All She Holds Dear, Evelyn Finds Herself Unable To Avoid The Question: Is The Man She Loves A Fraud, A Madman, Or-Most Frighteningly-Is He Telling The Truth?Cloaked In The Moody, Beguiling Backdrop Of Twentieth-Century Scotland, Anbara SalamS Hazardous Spirits Brings A Sparkling Sense Of Period Detail And Dry Humor To The Life Of A Young Woman Whose World Is Unsettled By Mediums And Spirits, Revealing The Devastating Secrets That Ghosts From The Past Can Tell When Given The Voice To Do So.