The dark
By: Claire Mulligan
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9780385671774
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Fiction; Spiritualists; Spiritualism; Romans, nouvelles; Spirites; Spiritisme; Roman; Englisch
Description: Tells the story of Leah, Maggie and Katie, the infamous Fox Sisters, who in the mid 1880s, convinced the world that they could communicate with spirits, until middle sister, Maggie confessed it had all been an elaborate hoax. In 1893, only Maggie is left alive. Ill, penniless and forgotten, a mysterious caregiver named Mrs. Mellon is her only lifeline to the world. Mrs. Mellon prompts Maggie into revealing her family's darkest secrets, but is Maggie confessing, or is she practicing her finely honed art one last time?
Notes: Issued also in electronic format.