Title: Wild Talent: a Novel of the Supernatural
Description: The year is 1888. Jeannie Guthrie, a sixteen year old Scottish farmworker,  must learn to deal with a dangerous talent. Believing that she has unintentionally killed her ne’er-do-well cousin, she flees to London, where she is befriended by the free-spirited and adventurous Alexandra David, and introduced to Madame Helena Blavatsky’s famous salon.  Wild Talent follows Jeannie and Alexandra from the late Victorian world of  spiritualists and theosophists; to the  fin de siècle Paris of  decadent artists, anarchists and  esoteric cults; and finally to the perilous country of the Beyond
Subjects: Madame Blavatsky; Alexandra David Neel; spiritualism; theosophy; London; Paris; decadent artists; nineteenth century occult
Places: Scottish Borders; London; Paris
People: The young Alexandra David Neel; Madame Helena Blavatsky
Time periods: 1888-18889